Even before the numbers started coming out, it was pretty obvious that having McCain, a guy with negative approval ratings and Palin, a woman with highly negative approval ratings, attack Obama, a guy with very positive approval ratings, could only result in a McCain and Palin’s numbers going down and Obama’s going up. And, that’s exactly what is happening.

What strikes me more is how obvious it is that the only people who are affected by the attacks are the rightwing base. Undecideds find the attacks and the mob that attends the Palin and McCain rallys disgusting. The media exposes the lies on a daily and an hourly basis. But, the McCain sludge team don’t care. They don’t care about the truth. Rove cared a little bit about the truth. These guys don’t.
Here’s a nice summary from Politifact…
In short, this was a mainstream foundation funded by a mainstream, Republican business leader and led by an overwhelmingly mainstream, civic-minded group of individuals. Ayers’ involvement in its inception and on an advisory committee do not make it radical – nor does the funding of programs involving the United Nations and African-American studies.

This attack is false, but it’s more than that – it’s malicious. It unfairly tars not just Obama, but all the other prominent, well-respected Chicagoans who also volunteered their time to the foundation. They came from all walks of life and all political backgrounds, and there’s ample evidence their mission was nothing more than improving ailing public schools in Chicago. Yet in the heat of a political campaign they have been accused of financing radicalism. That’s Pants on Fire wrong.