Just to be clear, the reason the story of Obama's Boston relatives could blow up is because the aunt and uncle may be in the U.S. illegally, though there's no proof of that. Even if they are undocumented, I have trouble believing this will become the much ballyhooed "October Surprise." McCain has supported a path toward citizenship for undocumented immigrants. The rabidly anti-immigrant GOP base has largely been shut out of this general election. And these relatives have a distant, if any relationship at all to Obama, who, after all, met his father only once and saw his Kenyan family only on rare visits as an adult. --Dana Goldstein
