The Writing on the Wall

Two days ago, NY Times conservative columnist David Brooks called Sarah Palin "a fatal cancer to the Republican party." Her anti-intellectualism, he said is a death knell in times that call for big ideas. He meanwhile praised Obama's running mate, saying:

"[Biden] can't not say what he thinks," Brooks remarked. "There's no internal monitor, and for Barack Obama, that's tremendously important to have a vice president who will be that way. Our current president doesn't have anybody like that."

Brooks predicted Obama would win by 9 points in the upcoming election.

Today, the Washington Post's George Will also threw in the towel on McCain's flailing campaign saying

Obama is competitive in so many states that President Bush carried in 2004 -- including Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado and New Mexico -- it is not eccentric to think he could win at least 350 of the 538 electoral votes.