My wife is full on board with John McCain at this point; in fact I have been forced to wear a McCain t- shirt and cap around the house just to get along this week. Myself, I still reserve my judgment and may go with either Barack Obama or McCain. Obama did take a beating the last two weeks, but he appears to have taken a lickin' and kept on tickin'.

The fall out from the Wright debacle is starting to settle, and it is telling us some interesting things about the campaign and where it may go from here.

It appears that only slight damage was done to Obama, including his favorability ratings. The latest Gallop poll from 3/24 to 3/26 shows Obama up four points over Hillary Clinton in that time. He dipped against McCain, but that appears to be recovering as well.

There are two other poll numbers that actually are more intriguing. One is the steep drop in Clinton's favorability ratings over the last week. Commentators on MSNBC last night were attributing it to her comments about Rev. Wright, mainly her statement that she would have left the church if it were she. My sentiments exactly, and I doubt if that is what hurt her, although it probably hurt Obama.

My view is that what hurt her was her blatant, videotaped proof of lying about her trip to Tuzla, trying to pump up non-existent foreign policy credentials. It is rather incredible that she thinks she can get away with such blatant lying. It shows how desperate she is to win, but what else is new?

Hillary's favorability ratings dropped to their lowest level since 2001 to 37 percent, down seven big points in a week. But another interesting poll has been done by Rasmussen showing that there is a big increase in the number of potential cross over Democratic voters whose favored nominee does not get the Democratic nomination.

In other words, Rasmussen found that 28 percent of Hillary supporters would vote for McCain if Obama were to become the Democratic nominee, and 19 percent of Obama supporters would vote for McCain if Hillary were to become the nominee.

Those are huge numbers of cross over voters, and it reflects the level of hostility developing between the two sides of the Democratic party. It also reflects Hillary's scorched earth approach to the primary and her unrelenting negative campaigning toward Obama. McCain and the Republicans are delighted by this turn of events, and even though it is early and there will be some revamping of those numbers as we go, it is clear that Hillary's campaign tactics are hurting the Democratic parties chances in November.

One also has to believe that hurting Obama as much as she can is a deliberate strategy. Right now her chances of winning the nomination are very low, simply based on delegate numbers along with a gradually dwindling super delegate count. In the last month she has lost 60 super delegates to Obama, and things are not turning around for her, they are getting worse. Her own advisors said that her chances of getting the nomination now are about 10 percent, which means they are actually about 5 percent, probably even less. She is not going to get the nomination and she has to know that.

What that means? By dumping on Obama, she is throwing a Hail Mary, hoping to turn around the super delegates by showing that he cannot win the general election against McCain, mainly because she has managed to tarnish him so badly. If Obama loses, then viola, in 2012 after McCain serves one term, its Hillary all over again. One has to wonder if that is her main agenda at this point.

Am I cynical? There is no too low you can go in estimating Hillary's opportunism and willingness to play dirty.

This really is a watershed campaign, and despite all the talk about gender vs. race, the Obama vs. Hillary campaign is really about the dirty politics of the past vs. the hopeful politics of the future. McCain is a decent person too, and I look forward to a campaign that is actually about issues, and not about trash talk.

That really will be something new.