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There are two ways to view today's Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey evaluating the post-Palin "bounce" in the key states of Colorado, Michigan, Florida and North Carolina.

Republicans can be cheered that the poll found four effects: an overall bounce for McCain in the polls, an increase in Republican party identification, an increase in support for McCain among white women and an increase in support for McCain among independents.

Democrats, though, can take comfort in the fact that the overall effect of all these is, as the pollsters say, "relatively small and probably does not fundamentally change the state of the race." Among white women, for example, McCain's popularity actually decreased in North Carolina, increased in Michigan and stayed the same in Florida and Colorado.