A new Washington Post-CNN poll indicates that Senator McCain's recent advertising blitz has significantly widened his lead amongst white working-class voters. The McCain campaign began airing the hard-hitting ads last week in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and has committed 35 million dollars to the four-state ad buy.

The Washington Post-CNN poll found that an unprecedented 100 percent of white working-class voters now say they will vote for Mr. McCain. That is a 36-point increase from just ten days ago, indicating that the ads have produced their intended effect. Most analysts agree that unless Mr. Obama can reverse the trend, the election is all but over.

Mr. Obama has been on the defensive all week, forced to answer a flurry of charges from the McCain campaign. Yesterday in Lebanon, Ohio, Mr. Obama called an impromptu press conference to state emphatically that he never orchestrated a 'kill all honkeys' rally while attending Occidental College in the 1980's. "Let me be clear," said Mr. Obama. "I never organized, participated in or even knew about this 'kill all honkeys' rally. And I have never in my life uttered the word 'honkey.'" David Gregory of NBC News accused Mr. Obama of misleading voters, pointing out that Mr. Obama had just used the word 'honkey' twice in the same sentence. 

The McCain campaign responded immediately with an ad that shows Mr. Obama's denial, but only the part where he says, 'kill all honkeys.' A narrator states, "Foreclosures are at a record high and Americans are hurting. Instead of offering real solutions for America, Barack Obama wants to kill white people." ABC News correspondent Jake Tapper asked why Mr. Obama thought killing white people would help solve America’s economic problems. Mr. Obama categorically denied that he wanted to kill white people and insisted his remarks were taken out of context. Mr. Tapper followed up by asking Mr. Obama if his denial was "too little, too late."

The McCain campaign immediately released another ad, which claims that Mr. Obama has fathered 83 illegitimate children by 45 different white women. The narrator also states that instead of paying child support, Mr. Obama "chooses to spend his money on malt liquor, white prostitutes and hardcore rap albums."

Immediately after the ad aired, Carl Cameron of Fox News asked Mr. Obama to respond to new reports that he has actually fathered well over 200 illegitimate children by 120 white women, all of whom are married to Teamsters and Iraq War veterans. Mr. Obama, visibly rattled, responded by saying, "I have not fathered any children by any white women and I haven't touched malt liquor in years." CNN's Dana Bash demanded that Mr. Obama specify exactly how many years it's been since he drank malt liquor, and asked whether or not his campaign has been damaged by Sexwithwhitewomengate.

But before Mr. Obama could respond, the McCain campaign was already on the air with yet another ad. This one features Mr. Obama's artificially darkened face, which slowly morphs into the Our Gang character Buckwheat, shown with a watermelon resting on top of his Afro. A narrator intones, "Barack Obama. Buckwheat in disguise?"

Jeff Zeleny of The New York Times asked Mr. Obama to comment on the Buckwheatgate controversy. "Let me say in the strongest terms possible," Mr. Obama responded angrily. "I am not Buckwheat." Given recent revelations, Mr. Obama’s claim that he is not Buckwheat was greeted with skepticism by the assembled reporters. Candy Crowley of CNN asked Mr. Obama if he was willing to take a DNA test to prove that he is not Buckwheat. But Communications Director Robert Gibbs abruptly ended the press conference and ushered Mr. Obama into his campaign bus.

A poll taken ten minutes ago found that 98 percent of white working-class voters think that Mr. Obama needs to answer more questions. The Obama campaign, in an effort to put the controversies behind them, announced that Mr. Obama would sit down this week with Steve Croft of 60 Minutes to address all unanswered questions surrounding Honkeygate, Sexwithwhitewomengate and Buckwheatgate. Senator McCain was asked today whether or not he thinks Mr. Obama is actually Buckwheat. Mr. McCain responded by saying, “That’s for the voters to decide.”