A sound, logical, and informed opinion piece, if a bit optimistic. The author seems to largely disregard the pernicious influence of the media in favoring their favorite flip-flopping, pandering, dishonest, ill-informed, pseudo-maverick. That bias has been expressed in veiled form all over TV, newspapers, and news magazines. Columnists like Gloria Borger, for one example and not the most extreme, are just panting with expectation for Karl Rove, her hero, to come to McCain's rescue and pull the biggest dirty trick of the era and send their boy to the White House. And the influences of the right wing extremist noise machine should not be ignored either. Some of the jingoistic opinions and false values expressed by ordinary Pennsylvanians as exposed on TV and in print during the PA primary sounded as though they came right off a Rush Linbaugh script. Beware of the corporate media.