Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

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Stan Greenberg: I've been following Reagan Democrats in Macomb County, MI, for just about ever, and well...

Before the Democratic convention, barely 40 percent of Macomb County voters were "comfortable" with the idea of Mr. Obama as president, far below the number who were comfortable with a nameless Democrat. But on Election Day, nearly 60 percent said they were "comfortable" with Mr. Obama. About the same number said Mr. Obama "shares your values" and "has what it takes to be president."

And the next county over is even more interesting.

Harold Meyerson: Thank you Fox, for getting Obama elected by being so out of touch.

In that sense, your work remains dangerous and disintegrative to the nation. But it is also, more narrowly, tactically, for now, a great gift to liberals and Democrats. You ensure the ongoing Palinization and marginalization -- electorally, the terms are synonymous -- of the Republican Party.

Kathleen Parker:

Columns will survive or not as the market dictates, but the blistering response to a dozen or so fellow turncoats reveals something deeply wrong with the conservative movement, such as it is. Or was.

P.J. O'Rourke: We blew it. We conservatives unilaterally screwed up. Had we been competent...

Aaron Glantz: It's the war.

Jonathan Cohn: It's health care.

Jack Shafer: Drudge roolz! So he's wrong an awful lot. So what?

Maureen Dowd:  

The Alaska governor, who now thinks she is even bigger than her vast state, has certainly not missed an opportunity to throw open the door to the national press this week, letting them hang in her Wasilla kitchen as she makes moose chili and cake and baby formula and hefty servings of spin.

Yael T. Abouhalkah: "Dear God, please tell Sarah Palin to run for president"

Jack Cafferty: Who cares about Sarah Palin? Some of the best of the comments:

Elizabeth writes:
National "rubbernecking." It is like driving by an accident. You don’t want to look, but somehow you just can’t help it.

Diane from Barneveld, New York writes:
She’s Bush in skirts.

Andrew writes:
There are two reasons: 1) She’s attractive. For better or for worse, people listen when pretty girls talk, no matter what nonsense may come out of their mouths. 2) Incompetence, by itself, is not entertaining. However, when the incompetent are supremely self-confident, full of certitude, and absent of insight, it’s absolutely compelling.

Tom from Fort Lauderdale, Florida writes:
Jack, they should leave this woman alone. Nobody cares how many countries there are in Ohio