And McCain, after a week of mud-flinging, keeps dropping. RCP's poll of polls gives Obama the biggest lead of the campaign, with another sharp drop for McCain this week. Pollster's chart:
There is a consistency and pattern to the reports, along with detailed testimony from many FBI agents, that make me believe that using faith to torture prisoners was far from rare.
Gabler is surely onto something in seeing the McCarthyite strain in American conservatism being more tenacious and transmittable, because human resentment is more common and politically potent than agreement about limited government.
