Frank Rich: "the overreaction to this latest gaffe backfired on the media... the Beltway has gotten so much wrong this year is that it believes that 2008 is still 1988. It sees the country in its own image — static — instead of as a dynamic society whose culture and demographics are changing by the day. In this one-size-fits-all analysis, Mr. Obama must be the new Dukakis, sure to be rejected by white guys... But some voters who lived through 1988 have changed, and quite a few others are dead... However out of touch Mr. Obama is with 'ordinary Americans,' many Americans, ordinary and not, have concluded that the talking heads blathering about blue-collar men, religion, guns and those incomprehensible 'YouTube young people' are even more condescending and out of touch."