I really think Obama is going to win this and it comes down to one thing. McCain is old. Dude is 72 years old.

You’ll see more before/after presidential montages than you can handle.

Great article by David Brooks. (Brooks is great when he drops the hammer indiscriminately)

“We haven’t had two presidential candidates as far removed from the mainstream suburban lifestyle. McCain’s family has been military for generations. But Obama’s path through the university towns is particularly elusive.”

Generation addressed here.

“The real significance of the age difference is not about health and mortality but about worldview, about ideology, about how the candidates understand the threats we face and the world we’re in. A candidate like McCain, born in the final years of the Depression and shortly before the outbreak of World War II, will simply have a different frame of reference from a candidate born, as Obama was, in 1961, the year President Kennedy took office and Bob Dylan arrived in New York. And that should be discussed openly.”

Finally, a great, “what the hell happened to Clinton piece” here.