Dirty laundry

Skipping past the "Wasilla hillbillies" attack on the Palins, here's what I find most interesting in the Newsweek dirt dump:

On the Sunday night before the last debate, McCain's core group of advisers -- Steve Schmidt, Rick Davis, adman Fred Davis, strategist Greg Strimple, pollster Bill McInturff and strategy director Sarah Simmons -- met to decide whether to tell McCain that the race was effectively over, that he no longer had a chance to win. The consensus in the room was no, not yet, not while he still had "a pulse."

Dude, I called it.