Yawn. Sigh.

There's also a new ABC/WaPo poll showing Obama up by 4 among likely voters, and by 6 among registered voters.

There's also a new USA Today/Gallup poll showing Obama up by 3 among likely voters. (This is a dramatic shift from the last USA Today/Gallup poll, which showed McCain up by 4).

And yet, this is the poll you post about, and plaster on the front page.

Sigh.

Polls r nothing but fantasy. Obama wins in a landslide.

CNN also said they allowed for cell phones and it did not make a difference! Yeah right!!

Funny:

Nate over at fivethirtyeight.com has already posted at length about how this poll manipulates and misstates the data. Give it a look.

Eric should perhaps have read this as well. After all, if i can find it.........

Obama has only hismelf to blame for turning off Hillary supporters.

Obama slapped Hillary across the face with his 3AM text message announcement.

Interesting analysis by Nate Silver. Again a tied poll now may mean a bigger bounce after the convention.

But USA Today/Gallup has Obama surging! How can this be?!

The Dispatch poll is probably the most accurate. These battleground states are really tight. This will all come down to ground game.

Who has got the better ground game.

All right, fine, so what are they trying to tell us? That McCain's uber-lame ad about Hillary's dissing Obama during the debates has actually found enough of Hillary's apocryphal "dumb old broad" vote to tank Obama? That a substantial percentage of "Democrats" are truly that uber-lame?

It seems that's the message, here.

Is it about Hillary? Or is it about Obama's association with William Ayers -- an admitted member of the radical Weatherman?

Hillary supporters are LITERALLY going against their own interests to vote against a fellow democrat because of a grudge or some other hidden agenda. You know what, if we lose this election I am switching over to a republican. At least THEY know how to coalesce around the damn nominee, even if they don't like him. I'll neva vote for a democrat again, I can't be part of a party of fools.

So will someone please tell me what is it that either Hillary or her "no surrender" gang of supporters will stand to gain from undermining and perhaps sabotaging the Obama candidacy?

If you think that Hillary is already a polarizing figure, just imagine the wrath of the various elements of the coalition that Obama has lit up if she tries to run in 2012. Her negatives would would be through the roof to make her unelectable and the supreme court would be to the right of Ghengis Khan. Nice result for all concerned - NOT!

Can't draw confident conclusions from this one poll . . . but it could well be that a certain slice of Hillary supporters were holding on to an unrealistic hope that HRC would get the nod, and were disappointed by the VP announcement.

The job of the convention will be to woo them back. Fingers crossed. I think the most important hour of the convention is Hillary's speech. Even Obama's acceptance speech, probably, matters less.

You really believe that the text message coming out at 3 AM (3.35 AM ET, actually) was intended as an insult to Senator Clinton?
Robert Gibbs said earlier today that they were planning to send it out later that morning, but since someone leaked the news to CNN, they scrambled to get the text out ASAP. Just as well, because I was pissed I heard it first from CNN, and I am sure I was not alone.
Paranoia will get you anywhere you want, but it still ain't rational.

Real Clear Politics has it a dead heat in the polls and in the Electoral College.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com

I'm still not sure how I feel about the Biden choice. It certainly gives the campaign experience and fighting spirit. Lord knows I've been begging for Obama to fight back.

I suspect, however, that turnout is going to be key in November. I don't think Biden rallies the base and unifies the party like Hillary could have. This also opens up the meme that Obama couldn't fight back so he brought in someone to fight for him.

Biden is a safe, strategic choice. I'm just not convinced it's the best or the right one.

What about the association of the Clintons with the same man? They pardoned him for god's sake!

We're not voting people here, we are voting issues. So therefore, if these people are that shallow that they would put their selfishness before their country's needs, then they will get what they deserve. Pretty much the total demise of America, what there is left of it.

Anyone who votes for McCan't is not a democrat. Any democrat who votes for McCan't is beyond redemption and if they are actively supporting McCan't, we need to laugh at their posts and realize that they are low intelligence voters. In Fact, stupid voters! Hillary supporters who vote for McCan't are properly labled the "Vagina" voters" who can't think beyond gender!

Obama is our nominee and he respects us and we must support and get him elected at all costs!

Having watched CNN foment a perceived rift between Clinton and Obama, where I don't believe one exists, followed by a poll that is mysteriously different than others released close in time, raises that cynical side of me that says they're no longer in it for the journalism -- they're in it for the ratings.

1. The Columbus Dispatch Ohio poll is the worst, most inaccurate poll in the United States according to Nate Silver's poll rankings at fivethirtyeight.com, so take no comfort in its finding McCain only ahead by 1 point.

2. The ABC/WaPo poll was taken entirely before the Biden pick. Two of the three days of the USA Today polling were before the Biden pick.

3. The drop for Obama in the pro-Obama CNN poll after Biden is not good for Obama, but as others have noted it provides the base for a greater convention bounce in the first post-convention CNN poll.

Keep your eyes on the tracking polls this week.

Yes as the MSM has been trying to push a rift between the Clintons and Obama along with the McCain camp... their does appear to be a bias in favor of numbers tht reflect their story.

I have to believe that in the end the Hillary supporters will not vote spitefully and do damage to themselves and the rest of us but think about the real damage another four more years of Bush policies could do, and if they can't vote for the man... at least vote to preserve choice for women and to protect whatever civil liberties we may have left by the time GW leaves office.

Well we will see if Michelle Obama was a good choice to kick things off with. I personally am not so sure she was a good pick. The Daily Gallup also had a tie. http://www.gallup.com/poll/109753/Gallup-Daily-McCain-Obama-Tied-45.aspx But is looks like there is an issue at http://www.bop-o-rama.com. The Clintons really need to step up here and get the party on track.

I. AM. SO. SICK. OF. THE. CLINTONS.

Gee, I wonder why Obama didn't pick Hillary. Maybe because when he didn't pick her it is all about her. What would it have been like if he did pick her?

I'm not sure a 100% blame the Clintons for their intrusion. The media loves the story line and will bring it up every single chance. Perhaps the convention is the last time they can do this? One can hope.

I AM TOTALLY TIRED OF THE CLINTONS

They demonstrate the essence of poor 'losership'

If they are the great caring Americans that love their country why are they taking their personal grief of loss out by destroying the Democratic Party. Grow up people. This is not a run for class president, high school level . . . this is about the future of an entire nation!

Relax everyone. The problem is not the poll itself, but the analysis. A tied poll is to be expected within the margin of error if Obama is 2-3 points ahead as most polls show him to be DESPITE the problems these polls supposedly say exist (and which I think are exagerated because most voters dont think about politics the way the poll issue questions are asked and just answer them after the fact to support their choice, comebined with Obama voters being more willing to be positive about McCain than the other way around. The attitude of some Hillary supporters is now a test for Hillary herself. Will she use her convention speech to make it clear that a vote for McCain is a vote against everything she has been fighting for and that her supporters are voting against what she stands for, not just against Obama, if they vote for McCain. I think that she will make that clear.

Here's the headline that should replace this one:
Obama Up by 5 in Colorado. TPM often emphasizes McCain's lead in swing states. Let's see if they'll do the same for Obama.

In fact, this whole media cherrypicking of their polls for articles and analysis BEFORE releasing full results for public knowledge is very annoying. For people who insist upon the public's RIGHT TO KNOW, they sure are not too anxious for the public to know the reality of their poll results until AFTER they have a chance to spin them in line with the current narrative.

Obama dropped 2 points overnight after picking Biden in the Gallup daily tracking poll and today it remains at 45% to 45%. Gallup says Obama has gotten no bounce from Biden.

There's a good chance McCain will pull into a 1-point lead in Gallup tomorrow after Michelle speaks tonight.