Afternoon Arugula

Sorry we've been slow on the clips this week, Education Dude has been traveling. We'll do a big one later to make up for it. On that note:

Ambers thinks the McCain campaign is the McCain campaign's worst enemy. He also thinks that the race is returning to something more familiar, except for the fact that:

the Obama campaign will have a massive resource advantage in each state it contests. In past elections, Democrats have had to pull together GOTV operations on the fly as if cramming for the final; this cycle, their field teams are extravagant and efficient. These are multiplier machines, and they're already turned on, culling, identifying and persuading tens of thousands of new voters.

Ambers also reminds us that campaigns aren't won by figuring out how to get the most electoral votes ... they're won by following the path that provides the highest probability of getting 270 of them.