It wont be long now until JM starts throwing the kitchen sink at BO, thats his only option right now.

It's the McCain Brand, and it will not diminish until Obama starts attacking it or people start paying attention (and neither are likely to happen). It's too bad Obama isn't a better debater, because that might have been his only shot at making real inroads against McCain on this issue.

I still say you bring Biden on your ticket and McCain loses his only edge. However I think Obama's campaign is too message disciplined for Biden. Biden would have went off today if McCain came at him like he came at Sen. Obama.

Given how Gallup pureed the polling data to come up with the "McCain leads by 4", I'd be seriously interested in the internals on this poll, because I really don't trust CNN on this.

In the release, they only mention that Obama has a double-digit lead over McCain on multiple issues, but not how much McCAin is leading Obama.

I'll just be utterly boring and repeat myself - I don't trust any polls.

Well, the media is certainly on the McCain bandwagon. Any of you wanting to slap Dana Milbank (which I hope KO does on his show) for his misquoting Obama and making national headlines read that Obama is pompous, here is asshole Dana's email. And yes, just for clarification, Dana is a guy.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/dana+milbank/

They aren't polling foreign policy, they're polling war policy. Who do you think is the best warrior in countries A-Z?

If you love war, vote for McCain. If you want peace, when the alarm goes off on election day, pull the covers over your head, go back to sleep and dream.

Hint for perpetually clueless Dems, explain to the folks that all that money Gore was going to put in the "lock box" for your social security has been spent and continues to be spent on war.

As long as the Dems cannot present alternatives or explain choices they are going to be beat by the guys with the biggest gun.

Well, at least we get the government we deserve.

how come no one in the MSM is mentioning the CNN poll?

Oh, and as reported, the D.C. office top guy for the AP was offered a job by McCain, which he gave consideration to before finally declining. Today, the AP justifies McCain's gaffes (dementia) with this pronouncement below. So now when McCain screws up his facts it is because he is breezy. WTF?!

PER THE AP:

Some of McCain's remarks seem to stem from his generally breezy nature and occasional tendency to leave details to subordinates. A case in point is the pending referendum in Arizona, which would bar affirmative action efforts in state agencies' hiring, contracting and college admissions.

Can you give a more POSITVE headline please.

Can't it just be that Obama is STILL AHEAD despite being out of the country for 1 week.

What can we Obama supporters do? It's perfectly obvious now that the media is going to push the pro-McCain talking points at every available opportunity directly or in disguised form: Who does that UPPITY NIGGER think he is (Don't forget why Emmett Till was lynched); "What's Obama's problem. Why can't he close the deal, etc.") We're fighting a losing battle if we think we can change a state of affairs that simply isn't going to change.

What we can do is register voters focusing on the young and African-Americans and others but with major emphasis on these two crucial voting blocks. North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and Virginia ARE IN PLAY! Let's forget the pundits and put our efforts where they will really pay off.

msm been crying all week why obama hasn't hit the 50 point mark i hope their own poll will shut them up...................

Th enew Ad really hit McCain Ad...dang! Axelrod is mean

Get this stat!

$51,345.08 - Senate salary John McCain has 'earned' since he last showed up in the Senate to perform his job on April 9, 2008.

$48,201.00 - The median household income in the US in 2006.

here's an idea:

why doesn't obama put together a highlight reel of all of john mccain's foreign policy gaffes of the last week and put it in an ad and saturate the airwaves with it?

i honestly think its all about john mccain's bio and reputation and has nothing to do with the voters being informed.

all the voters hear from the tv's talking heads is "mccain's a foreign policy expert" so they believe it.

What?!?! Obama was out of the country for a week and didn't magically overcome McCain in every single category mentioned in a poll? Sounds like he's losing!!!11!1!

Yes, that's the MSM spin on it, I'm sure. But I look at the 51-44 number and think, I'd rather have my candidate with the 51 than the 44, thank you very much. And how about that, he actually does.

I think we all need to take a deep breath, and keep registering voters and working the phones. This is like watching football and your team is way up but because you are so used to losing, you think the other team can pull it off. We will all feel this way till november. The fact is when the other team is throwing everything they've got at you, and is snapping at reporters, and outright lying, they have a problem. Trust me McCain's camp is looking at their organization in the states, the money they have to work with and internal numbers, and it does not look good. Thats politics, you realize the solid people you have and then the solid people your opponent has, and then the swings that can be swayed. When a campaign goes this negative this early it tells me that they have a lot less solid voters than the otehr guy and they are hoping for some kind of scandal to knock him down because they cant catch up. It happens all the time. Obama's people know this better than anyone else.

Americans are idiots if they think the same policies of the last 8 years are actually going to make us safer.

You know:

To think that a trip abroad was to result in an immediate shift in perceptions of Obama as credible on foreign affairs is just...stupid (and I don't use that word often. But I am sick, sick, sick of this kind of "reporting").

"Despite" trip - the wording - suggests that the trip was a miscalculation; a waste of time.

Obama's camp itself has said that the trip was meant to reduce people's "fears" that he would not be able to function on the world scene. People have to imagine Obama with world leaders. They assume, with no evidence, that McCain would be comfortable in these settings. Some people have to be constantly reassured about Obama. Geez: Don't you know that by now, Eric????? Don't you know why??????

So the pictures, the speech, the crowd...while not resulting in an immediate "bump," (and to expect a "bump" is to indicate a really profound lack of basic knowledge about how images do their work) - will hopefully factor into the "Obama" that people have in their heads when they ponder who they are going to vote for.

God: I really, really wish that there was more analytical sophistication in how these postings are written. I understand that some of the slippage in MSM has to do with really inexperienced people (you don't have to pay them as much)moving into positions of responsibility.

But I thought blogs were supposed to be better.

Phillips