this is really horrible thats why Im happy Obama is start to hit back hard. Or at least a little with
New Obama Ad: McCain-Reed-Abramoff

Talk to me after the convention! Then I'll worry!

Aiiii! Oimoi!!! Kakos!

(just thought I would join the wailing chorus)

Who cares at this point? I am not paying attention any longer. The campaign decide to play defense when they should be all over McCain. I am keeping my money in my pocket until i see changes in strategy.

Take a look at that map and tell me where we get another 7 electoral votes. Maybe Colorado and or Virginia but I hate to depend on them.

THIS should have been your headline:

"...Pollster.com's aggregate of state polls still has Obama way ahead in electoral votes.

not what you have there:

Blockquote> "CNN Poll Of Polls: Obama's Lead Is Gone."

McCain, a war hero who was held prisoner by the Vietnamese for over 5 years, has a lifetime of foreign policy experience, not including the over 5 years the war hero spent as a POW in Vietnam. John McCain, former POW and war hero, also happens to be a war hero who was held prisoner by the North Vietnamese for over 5 years.

McCain is a war hero, do you hear me????

McCain was a POW. He doesn’t like talking about it.

Do you hear me??

Coming from CNN, this this no news worthy.

CNN has announced the death of Tubbs Jones, sadly, they did not check the fact...

They have endorsed McBushSame.

They have lost their credibility long time ago...

This is the worse political team with FoxNews...

And I have boycotted CNN long time ago...

Rasmussen just released his latest NH poll and it shows Obama ahead by 1 both with and without leaners. Most of this tightening is due to McCain solidifying his base - he went from winning 78% of GOP voters last month to 87% this month. Obama still has an 8pt lead among indies. Again, the base still isn't rallying to Obama in this, another key state. I think that will change after the convention.

In other Rasmussen news, Obama leads McCain 53-43 in Maryland. Yawn.

Insider Advantage poll in NC has McCain up by 2, 45-43, (Barr pulls in 5%) and Dole and Hagan in a real tie, 40-40.

I'm thinking of starting up a national polling outfit. The industry doesn't seem saturated at all.

and here is the latest poll in North Carolina. Senator Obama is within 2%...

according to Insideradvantage

McWar = 44.5%
Obama = 42.8%

McWar would get 17% of the black vote...

As I keep saying, this is fishy, but shows how close Senator Obama is in North Carolina...

With all of the negative adds by team McCain, I'm not too shocked.

What I'm worried about, though, is the type of narrative that CNN and the mainstream media will
spin.

Obama campaign in turmoil.
Did Obama peak?,
Is he ready to lead?, etc.

At this point, the polls don't mean much to me.
It's how the media covers them is what concerns me.

Well the media have all endorsed McWars...They make more money covering wars than peace...

I agree, until they start hitting McCain hard
I'm off the bus.
I'm not going to back another effort like that of Gore and Kerry.

All they have to do is have an underling mention something about McCains past characterizations about women - something the media will run with - and McCain would lose 80% of the female vote.

If Obama picks credit card and unregulated bank loan king Joe Biden we're screwed.

Obama has to either pick Hillary (because he fell so far in polls) or Wes Clark.

Obama better pick someone with a backbone because Obama doesn't have one.

Obama’s opponent is NOT McCain right now. Obama’s real opponent is Obama. The problem with Obama is his arrogant thinking that he has the CREDIBILITY as a Democratic Party Leader. The primary electorate who voted for him overlooked his major weaknesses. First of all, he should accept that. Moreover, he doesn’t have any credibility to attack McCain because of his lack of presence in the National or State political scene in the last several years. Even his VP (like Biden, Nunn , Hillary) candidates may have credibility attacking McCain not him. Obama wasted almost two months of precious time with a ton of campaign money. With his ton of campaign money, he could have orchestrated several monologue type solo prime-time national town hall meetings (like Hillary’s Hallmark Channel town-hall meeting) to explain each of his public policy positions (Health Care/Economy & taxes/Foreign Policy/Iraq war etc) in a very substantive manner. Also, Obama could have used the friendly MSM to write positive things about his town-hall meetings. By presenting this way, the UNDECIDED ELECTORATE would have taken him seriously as a substantive leader. Since this was not done, the celebrity ads by McCain camp worked. It is already too late. Obama cannot do this in Denver convention. Right after convention, instead of big rallies and inspiring speeches, he should immediately conduct these kinds of solo National Town Hall Meetings in the prime time in NBC/CBS/ABC. This should be done before the first presidential debate and the World Series. Otherwise the game is over.

(Bill Clinton conducted these kinds of solo town hall meetings in 1992 and impressed lot of people like me with his substantive knowledge in Economy. His substantive explanation of Volcker/Carter’s fiasco in raising interest rates during 1976-80 recession time was hailed by the press and the electorate. At that time he was a small state governor and the electorate doesn’t know him either.)

Obama’s opponent is NOT McCain right now. Obama’s real opponent is Obama. The problem with Obama is his arrogant thinking that he has the CREDIBILITY as a Democratic Party Leader. The primary electorate who voted for him overlooked his major weaknesses. First of all, he should accept that. Moreover, he doesn’t have any credibility to attack McCain because of his lack of presence in the National or State political scene in the last several years. Even his VP (like Biden, Nunn , Hillary) candidates may have credibility attacking McCain not him. Obama wasted almost two months of precious time with a ton of campaign money. With his ton of campaign money, he could have orchestrated several monologue type solo prime-time national town hall meetings (like Hillary’s Hallmark Channel town-hall meeting) to explain each of his public policy positions (Health Care/Economy & taxes/Foreign Policy/Iraq war etc) in a very substantive manner. Also, Obama could have used the friendly MSM to write positive things about his town-hall meetings. By presenting this way, the UNDECIDED ELECTORATE would have taken him seriously as a substantive leader. Since this was not done, the celebrity ads by McCain camp worked. It is already too late. Obama cannot do this in Denver convention. Right after convention, instead of big rallies and inspiring speeches, he should immediately conduct these kinds of solo National Town Hall Meetings in the prime time in NBC/CBS/ABC. This should be done before the first presidential debate and the World Series. Otherwise the game is over.

(Bill Clinton conducted these kinds of solo town hall meetings in 1992 and impressed lot of people like me with his substantive knowledge in Economy. His substantive explanation of Volcker/Carter’s fiasco in raising interest rates during 1976-80 recession time was hailed by the press and the electorate. At that time he was a small state governor and the electorate doesn’t know him either.)

This is an election that will be a repeat of 1980.

No one's following these polls, the main poll people care about is Nov. 3.

The Republicans are in for a rude awakening.

IT'S THE FREAKING HILLARY HOLDOUTS WHO AREN'T GIVING O A BIGGER LEAD!

o's crushing mcsame with indies.

Where is Obama massive Inspirational Speeches to the Masses that was his forte. He is now acting like McCain, only entertaining these little town hall groups. He needs to go back to his Massive Inspirational Speeches to the Masses to get back his base voters. He doesnt need to do what McCain does, Mccain cant gain a crowd, Obama can. Who ever is advising him is not doing him justice. We need to hear his speeches. I only see commericials for John McCain, where is Obama spending his money?

What is the matter with you guys. Last week was vacation time and the olympics where what everybody was looking at. All the polls that come out now will reflect the same thing. They will reflect the views of folks last week when McCain had the week to himself. I was watching a republican pollster on C-Span, and he had the election as a dead heat, with McCain slightly ahead, but then he warned that August polls would have given us a president Dukakis, a second president Bush, and even a president Kerry. So there.
You cant just jump ship because of one week of polls.

Obama's limpid style and convoluted answers are losing him ground, but, as always, it's media framing.
Prime example: Russia, Georgia, S. Ossetia. Too many people don't get who started it (Georgia) and the MSM casts Russia as the initial aggressor. First impressions hold. And it's going to take a hell of a lot of work for Obama to dispel all the impressions people already have of him.
Oh, and he's also black, the elephant in the corner that dare not trumpet its name for fear of the race card accusation. That's reason enough for some to never support him but they won't admit it. And again, it's the media frame. Obama gets accused of making race an issue when it was McCain who did, very slyly. Would the media feel an obligation to dispel false notions? Surely, I jest.

National polls aside, on the bright side Pollster.com's aggregate of state polls still has Obama way ahead in electoral votes.

Hate to burst your bubble, but www.realclearpolitics.com has McCain frickin AHEAD in the electoral college.

Pull it together, big O! We believe!

Sorry: I just checked RCP and it shows Obama ahead:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/

What ... do ... you ... mean? Deliberate ... and full of .... pauses ... like my old Rabbi? (long pause) Is that ... what .... you ... are ... saying?

I think we have better things to do this election than hyperventilate about polls. Polls do not win elections, messages do, and the message we are all sending right now to the wider world is "circular firing squad!"

So folks, lets do ourselves a favor and act like we got some brains, some heart, some guts, and as gender appropriate, some balls. Anything else will just be a repeat of the same damn sad story we've repeated since Carter. Quit second-guessing ourselves, and lets kick some ass!

McCain offers hope that we will have someone who knows what the hell he is doing. POTUS is a very important job. Experience matters. I am a life long democrat and I stayed home in 2004 because Kerry was the worst nominee since Mondale. I couldn't and wouldn't vote for Bush, but McCain is a moderate and I am a moderate. Obama can't even answer a question with knowledge and conviction.

I imagine McCain has Huckabee and Romney supporters a la Bret08 and fogu2 undermining the McCain campaign in hopes that the Huckster or the Mittster will be the nominee.
It's time to fold the tent, folks, and get on the bandwagon.

I think the thing that causes reactions to be so strong is that people get so negative and every person starts thinking that their own personal plan is much better than any professional campaign advisers could be AND then they say they're not going to help fund the campaign until the Obama campaign does whatever it is that they think it should do.

For myself, I'd rather see him start lying through his teeth and trashing McCain into the ground-----which is the winning strategy used by republicans for some time now------than lose. I don't think we can afford to lose this time. But, I don't think my thinking is more brilliant than the professionals and I keep sending money faithfully.

p.s. If he did start doing what the repugies do to win, some of us would be glad and many of us would attack him unmercifully. Sometimes I think we're too "honorable" to win and too conflicted to lead. What's with us dems? Have we become the slaves of the century who are doomed to domination because we won't take control in a unified way?

Hopefully Obama will get a bounce from the Dem convention.

Okay, great. Now, I can't stop extemporizing verses to a blues song called "His Lead is Gone" in my head.

There are two ways to look at this. One is that Obama is underperforming because he's not crushing a guy who essentially is Bush with less hair and an ill-fitting suit. But look at it from this angle: McCain is underperforming as well. Except for Zogby, he's been stuck in the low forties in just about every other national poll, and he hasn't moved up much, even as Obama's numbers have dropped. In red states like NC and Ohio, after running a barrage of negative commercials, he's still in a statistical dead heat with a black Democrat with a foreign-sounding name that many people suspect is a closet Muslim. Not exactly an impressive performance for old Quickdraw.

As a proud longtime Clinton supporter and lifelong Democrat, I am also very proud to vote for the people's choice from my party, Barack Obama. Me and all the Clinton supporters I know all feel the same way. We're not happy that she lost and we still think she was the best candidate.

But we especially don't understand the viciousness of the Obama supporters around here who should be doing their small part to unite the party by stopping with the Clinton hate speech - don't stop the hating (that's too much to ask) - just the hate speech. I still see gratuitous slams on the Clintons on every "progressive" blog every day - sometimes I think I'm reading Michael Medved posts or something.

If it's true that 25% of the Clinton voters won't commit to pollsters that they support Obama, perhaps some should look in the mirror to figure out how this could possibly be. Anyhow, I think maturity will win out and nearly all of the Clinton supporters will get out and work for and vote for the Democratic ticket after the convention. Victory in 2008!