Democrats across the country are worried and panicking, because Barack Obama is unable to break the 54% mark two months out. Not only that, but a near majority of voters (more than 40%) are supporting John McCain, this despite the fact that this is a change election.
Many independent political experts and analysts worry that Obama can't win the hispanic vote because of the well-known black-brown divide and because hispanic voters supported Hillary Clinton. John McCain winning many hispanic votes.
Obama is also underperforming with the female vote. Where there should be a huge gender gap, Obama fails to break 50% with females, winning merely 49-34% according to the latest surveys. A democratic nominee who cannot break 50% with females is not going to win. This has many Democrats worried.
In addition, Barack Obama's opponent, Sarah Palin, has many family problems, which are caused by liberal bloggers and many sexist Democrats who have been identified today by the McCain campaign. There are too many sexist Democrats to count, so the McCain campaign wasn't specific about who these sexists were, but it has to worry the Democrats that these credible accusations are being thrown at our party. The unbridled sexism of our party and the millions of liberal bloggers (who indirectly caused Sarah Palin's family problems) will definitely cause a backlash. The Palin family's many problems have been a total drag on the Democratic ticket, and there will be a huge backlash because elderly swing voters tend to base their voting on accusations of blogger misconduct.
Many other Democrats are worried that Obama's current tenuous lead - which is BARELY in the upper single digits - will cause a backlash amongst Republicans and cause higher turnout. Democrats must be careful not to be appear too gleeful about their lead else they awake the Republicans. They also mustn't openly take pride in their lead in the polls or question McCain or Palin because this would be perceived by millions of swing voters as being overly insensitive to the McCain campaign's problems. While Palin's roll-out has been somewhat rocky, the McCain campaign is the victim here, and the Democrats shouldn't be too gleeful in attacking them. There could be a backlash.
The Democrats should also take care to avoid questioning whether McCain's pick of Sarah Palin was better than Caligula's appointment of a horse to the Roman Senate, because this could cause hysterical laughter, which could cause many Democratic base voters to die of laughter, which would be bad (unless they've already turned in absentee ballots).