Stupidly assuming it would air later in the evening, I was busy doing important things during Obama’s big half-hour special last night. Before it aired, most of the headlines I saw were asking if the 30-minute commercial was 4 million dollars of overkill at this point, given all the recent poll results. And yet, there’s people like former governor (and robot wannabe) Tommy Thompson saying McCain can take Wisconsin if he really steps it up. Thompson wishes McCain would have done a few things differently, like throwing Palin on a tour bus and cruising her through the northern part of the state, but he thinks we could still be a red state. Seems like McCain’s going to be too busy down in Florida to worry about us cheeseheads, though.

So how was Obama’s big show? Overkill? Cool? Pointless? What? Beyond the commercial itself, the thing snagged a lot of election coverage away from McCain for a few days, and there aren’t many days left.