THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

But Clinton can still taste it.

Everytime some pseudo-controversy emerges about Obama, she goes to bed telling herself, "This is the one. This has got to be the one."

But it never is.

It never will be.

Not Goolsbee, not Power, not Wright.

No matter how many helpful "scoops" she gets from ABC and Halperin, it'll never be enough.

It'll always be just close enough to where she can taste it... but can't take it.

The fact that Obama is tying with McCain suggests that the "kitchen sink" is working. He was up a few weeks ago.

Again, polls are simply questionable data points used as evidence by anyone with a poor argument to make. That said, I find that the trend of Obama gaining likely is due to the Ferraro thing, but I suspect that the whole Rev Wright thing will bring him back to earth.

I mean, how else would the MSM keep this thing even? (Early on, when I was pro Clinton and Obama, I thought the media played a big role in getting Obama close - they wanted it that way)

The finely tuned mass media juggling act continues on, how long can they keep three campaigns in the air? They're juggling Obama and Clinton with one hand and holding McCain in the other. Clearly, the goal is to keep things as close as possible, to keep the audience breathless. If Obama does well then favor Clinton, if Clinton does well favor Obama, I think they'll try to keep it going to the convention, then pull out McCain for the general. Since McCain is in essence getting a pass on just about everything, for now, national polls versus his current status don't seem all that meaningful aren't likely to be used for anything but keeping the Democratic campaigns in apparent parity.

Both Rasumussen & Gallup have Obama at the 50% mark. 50% is important because generally that means people are beginning to really make up their minds and becoming relatively sure of their choice. Once a candidate gets to the 50% mark, it becomes a lot more difficult to erode that particularly late in the process.

Now that isn't to say that it won't dip back below it or that can't change but eventually candidates who cross that threshold tend to stick.

Nat'l polls don't mean much to the popular vote but they do to super delegates.

This obviously doesn't matter. Here at HRC Election Central they just announced that Obama has been dealt a death blow. It is all over now.

Truly hilarious.

It's due to Sanity. Who's Sane?

Barack "Who's Sane" Obama!

(alternate reading: "He's Sane")

Must be sanity is prevailing.

How long do you think this is going to last when the press gets through vetting Rev. Wright and Brother Obama.

Ah, it doesn't matter, tomorrow he will be down 2 and she will be up 2. This will go on and on and on until its over. No knock-outs.

When our candidate is up in these tracking polls we cheer, when they are down we diss the poll. My candidate is up but it's hard for me to see how these national tracking polls mean anything at all, especially with the day to day volatility. It is the state polls, to the extent they have any validity, which is questionable, which really have better sampling and measurement ability.