In every major National Poll, Obama is either tied or LOSING. A week ago, it was the exact opposite.
Not only is he ahead for the first time since both secured the nominations, but McCain has also passed 50% in Gallup for the FIRST time and is ahead by every accountable measure…no small thanks to Palin.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
Ooops. 
I liked the underdog angle better, but if he can leverage this position and maintain it – rock the hell on!!!
:D:D:D
It’s great to see the poll swinging to the RIGHT. But what counts is what happens on November 4th.
I sure don’t want to wake up to having BHO the elected President. On the other hand, Vice President Sarah Palin have a nice ring to it.
I agree that a real big danger is to presume this is a foregone conclusion.
“Inevitability” has been invariably undone.
Hopefully Americans are beginning to realize what will be in store for them if BHO gets elected. Now if we can only continue to educate the uneducated.
(Not trying to hi-jack this thread but am I missing something? What happened to the MSNBC thread? 
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i feel this strange urge to go home and hug … nay … cling … to my M4.
How true.
I will always remember waking up on the morning of the last election certain that Kerry had won, only to see that he in fact had lost. I was just so damn happy. 
I also remember the sick feeling I had the night before watching Susan Estrich on Fox gloating over her party’s seemingly inevitable win.
Yes, that was a good morning indeed.
The tell tale is this. Obama is directing most of his rhetoric towards Palin NOT McCain…
Also. They are giving Palin a hard time about the bridge to nowhere. She was for it then against it when her people (alaskan citizens) were against it… Well F$%# ME!!! I wish every politician would listen to their people like that. I see NOTHING wrong with that move at all. About keeping the money… Didn’t she do good things with it? And where was it going to go if she gave it back? (asking because I haven’t read anything on it) Sometimes doing the right thing isn’t doing the right thing. If this is is all the dems have…weak.
Obama has deceiving all of us up to this point…I wouldn’t count a snake
with closed or squinty eyes dead, if you know what I mean.
Yes, but he is still an assload ahead electorially, which is really counts. This trend needs to extend itself a lot further or we are still seeing BHO as POTUS.
Actually if you take out leaners, Obama has 273 to McCain’s 265. In short 5 electoral votes swings the direction.
Moreover most state polls aren’t taken as regularly as national polls, so many of those will shift as more recent data makes its way into the system.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/?map=10
Hopefully they get a full poll out and see what the VP announcements and the conventions have changed things.
As it sits now I see that RLC map being wrong, BHO is going to take OH. Too many union D lever pullers and college mush heads who will vote for him, multiple times in certain areas.
Well polls are polls and just a snapshot.
Ohio is going to be a key vote, but those “Union” guys have elected every Republican President since Lincoln.
Rasmussen just had him up by 6 points in Ohio in a poll that came out today. Outside of the margin of error btw.
I hadn’t seen that poll. Good news, now just keep the eastern part of your state from flaking out and I can be hopeful.
Correction…not outside MOE.
My God, if Obama doesn’t win, a lot of people are going to be jumping from rooftops. I still think he will probably eek it out, but McCain/Palin is clearly a much stronger team than Obama/Biden. Just the fact that old Mac and Sara have made a horserace in this environment shows that they would probably govern better. Obama can’t seem to take advantage of any of the myriad gifts fate has handed him (tottering economy, perception that the Republicans are at fault, war, etc).
D’oh. Hopefully Obama keeps running his yap and pushes it out of the MoE
The margin of difference was 6 points. The MOE was exceptionally high at +/- 4.5% due to a smaller sample size. Usually an MOE is about +/- 2-3%
All that being said, McCain has held a slight, but consistent lead for several months in the Ohio poll averages.
ALL battleground state polls have shown a narrowing of the race in the last month.