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On Friday night, McCaign released a memo explaining how the presidential race stands in Iowa:

Our numbers in Iowa have seen a tremendous surge in the past 10 days. We took Obama’s lead from the double digits to a very close race. That is why you see Barack Obama visiting the state in the final days, trying to stem his losses. It is too little, too late. Like many other Midwestern states, Iowa is moving swiftly into McCain’s column.

(In case you were wondering, that was written by campaign manager Rick Davis, who seems to regard political speech as a sub-category of fiction.)

For some reason, only incomplete versions of the McCaign memo have been reported. In rectification thereof, we present the full monty:

Our numbers in Iowa have seen a tremendous surge in the past 10 days. We took Obama’s lead from the double digits to a very close race. That is why you see Barack Obama visiting the state in the final days, trying to stem his losses. It is too little, too late. Like many other Midwestern states, Iowa is moving swiftly into McCain’s column. At airports all over Iowa, pigs are lining up to use the runways. On November 4, these pigs will be seen to fly. Solid gold pigs. With unicorns riding on their backs. And Sarah Palin lookalikes sitting on the unicorns waving “Country First” pom-poms.

Which is to say, there’s podium spin, and then there’s sheer unbounded delusionality. And S.U.D. seems to be the unifying force in the McCaign. Most days, it’s the only thing Palin and McCain have in common (as Palin blithely contradicts everything that McCain and the rest of his campaign have been saying.)

(For the record, on Saturday, the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll — widely regarded as the most authoritative poll for Iowa — reported that Obama’s lead had widened from 12 percentage points in the previous poll, taken Sept. 8-10, to 17 percentage points.)