Distraction Tactics; Baiting Barack

Sarah Palin is dominating media coverage. She is ahead of both John Mccain and Barack Obama in approval rating polls. It is most likely that this is due to her better-than-expected convention speech, which is the only knowledge that most Americans have of her so far. From where it stands currently, her approval rating has nowhere else to go except down (the attractive, Tina-Fey-librarian look can only carry her so far before family values and pork barrel scadals begin to outweigh the former).
What Palin has brought to the table that will remain throughout this election is the issue of experience. Whenever her experience is brought up, consequently Barack Obama's experience is examined. The Obama camp has become aware of this and must continue steering such conversations away from Palin's experience and toward her stance on vital national issues.
Palin may also prove to be bait in a larger sense. By drawing attention away from Mccain in the media she is acting as a buffer for issues of change and freshness. By keeping her at the forefront of media coverage, Mccain is able to use her strengths on certain issues (youth, middle class background, etc.) as cover to hide his own weaknesses in those very categories (being old as the hills and owning too many properties to recall how many in total). It will be interesting to see how much longer Mccain can dodge the spotlight, and in what fashion Barack Obama will respond.

On a side note, does anyone remember who the Democratic VP candidate is? I forgot...