The McCain campaign needs to step up and deliver a serious address to their supporters about this kind of awfulness:
(PHILADELPHIA) As the crowd cheered at a Sarah Palin rally this morning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a man in the audience grinned as he held up a stuffed monkey doll with a Barack Obama bumper sticker wrapped across its forehead.
The thing that makes me lose sleep isn't just the insidious racism of it all, but it's the chilling prospect that if Senator Obama loses, the establishment press will frame the loss as a victory for (in the pejorative sense) "working class whites" -- people like that "kill him" guy -- and how they turned out en masse and said 'no' to the prospect of the first African American president.
That's why we have to keep pushing back and running up the score. After eight dark years, the thought of another victory for these people is almost unbearable.