The McCain team must have felt brilliant for their timing by announcing a woman on the ticket the day after Obama's nomination and the Democratic convention.  But that's spectacularly short sighted. They got some positive coverage on day one and stole Obama's post convention thunder. By day two they must have started second guessing the wisdom of picking a BA graduate in journalism from Idaho who did TV sports, ran a snowmobile shop, got involved in small town politics and almost made it half way through her term as Governor of a state that has roughly the same population as Winnipeg, Manitoba. By day three it was abundantly clear that their candidate was woefully lacking as an attempt to draw the 18 million voters who were supporting a Yale Law School graduate with a wide array of private and public practice on her resume, including making partner in a firm, before dedicating herself for the last decade and a half to national public service.  Good headlines on the noon news on Friday though.