Reading early leaves of thy tea

Not literally, as I use tea bags.

If your a Democrat, there appears to be mixed news following both conventions.

Drudge says the Repos beat the Dems in overall audience for the convention. According to the article he links, it appears that he cherry-picked the one stat that would allow him to justifiably lead his website with said headline. But, when reading the actual story, it's more of a toss-up than a Republican over Democrat in terms of convention watchers.

Fine, let's give old Matt the benefit of the doubt here (I know, I know...).

But, it may appear that a combination of Obama's speech on the prospect of real change when compared to what the Republican's rolled out (especially that nitwit Miss Cheap-Shot Palin) voters are flocking to Democrats to register to vote.

To be fair, this doesn't mean those voters will, in fact, vote for Democrats. I don't know the precedent or accuracy of registering to vote with party X and how that correlates actually voting for party X, but one would have to think...it's quite high. Why else would Political Parties put such money into voter registration activities.

Being from "the Heartland," even the Democrats there did it. And I saw it work in a town I lived in during my college years, I volunteered for the local party and we over-turned two city council seats through voter registration and getting out our message alone. One of those became the new Mayor the following election cycle, and 6-7 years later, her name is still on top of the Mayoral letterhead for the city.

Moreover, let me just add this little ditty about Miss Palin: A small town mayor is EXACTLY what it sounds like...a small-town mayor. I'm not going to claim I was intimately familiar with the mayoral schedule, but it didn't seem like a lot. For goodness sakes, I believe she held down another job on the side!!

In conclusion: Assuming the 3-day Repo Convention had more viewers than the 4-day Democrat Convention, American voters may not have liked what they saw despite all the hoopla in the "hall." Gov. Palin may have come across, in retrospect, too harsh for voters' tastes who were looking for serious answers to serious problems. Yet, we can't make the same mistake as we did with Dubya, the Dems shouldn't overlook her either.

I call on the Obama campaign to put forth an aggressive strategy way ahead of the VP Debate to down-play expectations on Biden, and hype the prowess of the Governor.