From UK's Guardian...

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Liberal paranoiacs, breathe easy: the swift-boating of Obama isn't working
by Michael Tomasky

Emotions run hot on election eve, and few emotions are more a-boil right now than liberal paranoia. I hear it constantly: I don't care about the polls. I won't believe it until I see it. The Republicans stole 2000 and 2004, and they'll steal this one.

This dark pessimism is fortified by a corollary anxiety that each new revelation about Barack Obama will surely bring the whole enterprise crashing down and make middle Americans wake up and say to themselves, "Of course. What was I thinking? Back to McCain!"

This past weekend it was the story about Obama's auntie in Boston, a woman living in the US illegally for the last four years. But Zeituni Onyango is fading into the background, just another element of the farrago of last-minute titbits that make for future trivia questions. Her name may have been unlawfully leaked to the press by officials seeking to do Obama damage. But whatever the truth of that matter, the injury to Obama would appear to be minimal.

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Face it, liberal paranoiacs: the swift-boating of Barack Obama clearly is not working. That it would work - indeed that it would define the contest - was the greatest fear of liberals everywhere as it became clear last spring that this somewhat unusual creature would carry the Democratic standard into battle this autumn. Many foresaw an October full of racial innuendo, Obama-Osama Freudian slips and worse.