The Battle Continues:)

Location, location. A yacht's the perfect spot to launch a counterattack to blow out of the water America's perceptions of the Dem elite. For more geopolitics, here's Barack Obama's electoral map, state by state guide. (I especially enjoy the first ones that pop up in California. And Illinois.) Sorry, Iowa, you don't really rate. Background on Iowa here. Keep working on that Barack. Chicago Tribune interviews Pennsylvania voters:

Likewise, at the baseball diamond, Cindy Reda, 42, a teacher's aide who rushed toward the field to applaud her son's hit, spoke skeptically of the fine language that has impressed so many of Obama's admirers.

"He speaks more—I don't want to say over your head—but he uses more clichés. She's more straight up. For him, I'm not quite sure what he's saying. But he says it eloquently—all the time," said Reda, a trace of disdain evident in her final words.

More clichés--can this be possible? How can the MSM not have picked this up?

Meanwhile, the Dems want the battle to continue, and there's a debate tonight, great!! WaPo:

A likely centerpiece of the debate will be a controversy over comments Obama made April 6 at a San Francisco fundraiser in which he described residents of economically hard-hit small towns as "bitter" and said they "cling" to guns or religion. The Clinton campaign quickly seized the opportunity to tag Obama as an elitist who is out of touch with the values of rural America.

Obama said that while he may have chosen his words poorly, he was correct in saying that many Americans in these communities are rightly angry about the failure of the government and politicians to do more to improve economic conditions in their areas. His campaign also released an ad yesterday that criticizes Clinton.

Is this the new ad? Pennsylvania polls. National head-to-heads. And 13 American arguments.

UPDATE: Obama put the flag pin back on yesterday. Will he cling to it, uh wear it in tonight's debate?