Barack Obama was asked in Pennsylvania whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.

Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted.
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It's the one ligering question that has been on my mind, and it's great to hear that Obama plans to hold the Bush administration accountable.

Complete story here: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Barack_on_torture.html

@Marginal Player, the number of undecideds indicate that the Bradley effect will not be large. Expect from this poll a 55-45 victory for Clinton right now. Expect that to narrow a little, as Obama has suffered his worst week ever this campaign and survived.

Notice I wrote Clinton, not Billary, HillBilly, or some other term the candidate would not use. Why Barry-O, except to show your unwillingness to treat people as people? You wrote Senator Clinton. Perhaps you might try practicing writing Senator Obama.

And not too distant, you might want to practice writing President Obama, if you can stomach it.

This poll is also Quinipiac, a highly regarded pollster.

"If I found out that there were high officials who knowingly, consciously broke existing laws, engaged in coverups of those crimes with knowledge forefront, then I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law -- and I think that's roughly how I would look at it." Barack Obama

No politician double-talk there. Obama makes it perfectly clear how he see it.

SUSA's latest poll has Clinton up by 14 points.

Sounds to me like Pennsylvania voters recognize that the flap over Obama's remarks was bullshit inspired by two candidates who are used to talking down to voters as if they have the intelligence of a three-year-old and a news media that is utterly clueless about what life is like for working families. If Obama hasn't dropped after several days of relentlessly negative publicity, that speaks to the futility of Hillary's help-McCain strategy.

Cue gotalife to insist that they only polled "elitist" Pennsylvanians.

And he's outspending her what 3-to-1? 4-to-1 at this point? I guess $50 million doesn't buy what it used to, but that's inflation for you.

Barack Obama has been spending so much money on advertising in PA that at least one recent poll suggests it's gone beyond diminishing returns and perhaps started backfiring. Some people say they're getting so sick of seeing his ads that they're considering voting against him on that basis alone.

CORRECTION:

Fully one forth of Hillary supporters in the state would back McCain if Obama became the nominee

should read

Fully one forth of Hillary supporters in the state say they would back McCain if Obama became the nominee.

Marginal player: I have been knocking on doors for the Obama campaign in northeast Philly. This is Clinton country. Lots of rednecks. People with no college education and voters who have little or lots of misinformation about each of the candidates.
Believe me, if people are voting for Clinton, they have no problem telling me. I've also been told by people there that I'm "stupid" to be volunteering for Obama. So we know where we stand there and I'd rather have them tell me then pussyfoot around the issue.

Pennsylvania is not like New Hampshire, where voters may have felt some pressure to be politically correct to pollsters and then vote otherwise in the primay.
But Pennsylvania is a state where people tend to say what's on their mind.

For those who are racist, Obama wasn't gonna win them anyway. I predict little or no Bradley effect

Actually the SUSA poll is very encouraging for Obama: he's gained two points since last week and Clinton has lost points. Go figure.

Josh may want to address that in his TPM front page article.

Clinton 54% (-2) Obama 40% (+2)