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Comedian Sarah Silverman's campaign to rock the granny vote in the swing state of Florida by deploying legions of Jewish twentysomethings to descend on the condos of Boca to lobby their elderly relatives to vote for Barack Obama tickled Kelly Cobiella's funny bone at CBS. She found a granddaughter who had actually made the Great Schlep to visit grandma Dorothy in Brighton Beach: "Thousands signed up online and last weekend dozens of them crisscrossed the country armed with talking points." By mobilizing just dozens, the schlep apparently redounds more to the benefit of Silverman's comedy career than Obama's election prospects.
On the serious side, ABC News published its latest national opinion poll of the Presidential race--an unproductive exercise since the election is decided by the several states not the population at large--conducted with Washington Post. Still, George Stephanopoulos drew his lesson from Obama's 53%-43% lead in the popular vote over John McCain: "The fundamentals here are that the country wants change." President George Bush enjoys a lower approval rating even than Richard Nixon's at the depths of the Watergate crisis and the 90% of the population that the believes the country is on the wrong track also evokes Watergate woes: "That is a record going back to 1973."
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