Great. If he keeps hammering the economy while the voters are tuned in, I think there will be some a long lasting impression in voter minds that Obama can ride to a win in November. Waiting for the electoral projections to catch up in the next 4-10 days.

It's amazing that there are still 30% of the population that approves of Bush's performance as President.

okay we are back in front. now we have to stay that way.

nothing funny in the next 6 weeks and Obama will win the white house.

Anyone who thinks the economy is 'fundamentally sound' during a recession is not qualified to be President. Barack Obama understands people are suffering.

mccain is back on the defensive. seltzer came out today with a poll from indiana which shows Obama leading. now i dont believe he will win Indiana, but atleast it puts McCain on the defensive and now he has to spend money there.

we all know if Obama merely ties or loses Indiana by a few points that it means he wins Ohio, Virginia.

i find it hard to imagine Obama doesn't manage to win just one of the big 3 OH, VA, FL.

Compare the money Barack has raised form lobbyists with that McCain has snagged.

John McCain $6,550 (Fannie Mae) $9,100 (Freddie Mac) $117,500 (Lehman Bros.) $36,875 (AIG) and $88,050 (Bear Stearns)

Barry Oilbama $137,950 (Fannie Mae) $68,750 (Freddie Mac) $370,524 (Lehman Bros.) $75,899 (AIG) and $570,614 (Bear Stearns)

Oilbama $1,223,737.00
McCain $ 258,075.00

I guess Oilbama, who voted for The Bush Cheney Energy Bill which gave away 8 Billion to Big Oil
is not only in the pocket of Big Oil but owes the American people another million he recieved from
Lobbyists.

Republican Senator, Chuck Hagel tells Omaha Herald that Palin/McCain are Insulting the American People.

Read the entire article at this link:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/republican-senator-chuck-hagel.php

Be sure to recommend, so that other also get to see it, before it is buried under the usual blizzard of rubbish posts, that have nothing to do with this vital election contest.

I try to never give these polls to much weight, but damn I feel better when he's on top and moving in th right direction...

The campaign needs to continue to hit McCain in the mouth everyday until the election for us to win this thing.....

Obama campaign, "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?"

No more of these Ali rope-a-dope tactics; BUST THIS OLD MF IN THE MOUTH EVERYDAY!!!!!!!

Sorry not really an insightful comment just needed to get it out....

Can we see some more polls like the one out of Indiana, please? I know it's just one poll, but it shows Obama in the lead, even if it is inside the margin of error. That's fairly significant, if for no other reason than it has to make some people who were calling his plays for states like Indiana misguided. It's still far from certain that he'll win the state, but with the poll numbers looking close and his unprecedented and unmatched investment in the state, it's bound to be tight. At the very least, it seems we'll have built enough of an organization to make a run for it next time, regardless of what happens.

The same can be said about North Carolina, although I'd like to see at least one poll showing us in the lead there before I get more confident.

I wonder if the national media is going to pick up McCain's Spanish radio gaffe?

Compare the money Barack has raised form lobbyists with that McCain has snagged.
John McCain $6,550 (Fannie Mae) $9,100 (Freddie Mac) $117,500 (Lehman Bros.) $36,875 (AIG) and $88,050 (Bear Stearns)
Barry Oilbama $137,950 (Fannie Mae) $68,750 (Freddie Mac) $370,524 (Lehman Bros.) $75,899 (AIG) and $570,614 (Bear Stearns)
Oilbama $1,223,737.00
McCain $ 258,075.00

So why you ask does Barry Oilbama, a first term Senator, get more money from financial institutions who have helped produce the worse financial crisis in a century than the crusty old so-called Washington insider John McCain?
Because Barry played ball with these folks. If you start with his longtime fund raiser, Tony Rezko, you find a direct road to Nadhmi Auchi, a British-Iraqi billionaire who loaned Tony Rezko $3.5 million shortly before Rezko helped Oilbama buy a house he could not then afford. Oh yeah, almost forgot. Auchi is one of the largest shareholders in the bank that stands the most to lose from Lehman Brothers’ woes. Is it likely that one of the reasons Oilbama got so much dough in the first place from the Lehman folks was because of the Auchi ties?
When it comes to getting favorable loans that the average American cannot obtain, Barack hangs with the right folks. Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson both got sweetheart deals form Countrywide. So what? Well, both Raines and Johnson ran Fannie Mae and Raines paid almost $25 million dollars for his role in a Fannie Mae accounting scandal. As I noted in an earlier post, Oilbama initially named Johnson to head up his VP search team.
But wait, there is more. Penny Pritzker. In a nutshell, “one of the first subprime lenders to stick it to borrowers and have her bank seized is a woman named Penny Pritzker, who just happens to be Oilbama’s campaign Finance Chair (as confirmed on April 3, 2008) and a potential Secretary of the Treasury in an Obama administration.”
What does this say about Oilbama’s “judgment?” When it comes to losers and thieves he sure knows how to pick them. It is one thing to get yourself a sweetheart home loan with the help of a guy being investigated on federal corruption charges (and subsequently convicted). An isolated bad choice? Wait a minute. Then what about Raines, Johnson, and Pritzker?
Why is it that the major financial institutions in the toliet or heading there all wanted to give this first term kid a whole bunch of money? They were not tossing him dollars just because he cleans up well, looks good in a suit, flashes a nice smile, and speaks proper English. They wanted something.
I find it fascinating that John McCain has a clear record of opposing these financial special interests (he learned his lesson the hard way with the Keating five scandal) and it is Oilbama, who voted for the Bush Cheney Big Oil Energy Bill, who is up to his eyeballs in these sleazy money, who for now is being given a pass.
One final point. Take a look at this piece of investigative journalism documenting chapter and verse about Oilbama’s ties with the slumlords of Chicago. The meltdown on Wall Street started with these slumlords. It is all part of the same activity–an insiders club that pays those who go along while inflicting pain on the poor. That was Oilbama’s game, not McCain’s.

I maintain national polls mean little. I love this news, don't get me wrong, but I think Obama's ground game is such that these polls are all wrong.

I may change my mind around Oct 15th, but until then it is important we keep working and contributing to Obama as best we can and ignore the temporary ups and downs of various polls.

Interestingly enough the most important poll around shows 100% of me thinks McCain is a punk ass chump sell out who is hiding behind Palin's bulletproof moose skin skirt. Now that is a poll we can all believe in!

Whats up with former Cokehead Oilbama, who voted for the Cheney Bush Energy Bill that contained 8 billion in a give away to Big Oil, dissing Linsey Lohan? Michael Lohan is biting back.
"For Barack Obama to condemn my daughter for past indiscretions when he admitted to the exact same himself is indicative of what kind of president he would be," Michael Lohan told Pop Tarts via e-mail on Wednesday night. "His visions of a positive future for this country should be representative of a positive future for people as well. It is looking beyond the difficult times and letting go of the past," Michael said. "Obviously, Obama can do this for himself and not others, when in fact a good president should have hope for all."

Oilbama should try and help every other Coke Adiict in the land.

Just in case you need more proof that Sarah Palin is an idiot, in her interview with Sean Hannity she repeated her past statement that ANWR is only the size of Los Angeles International Airport. In reality, ANWR is 20 million acres, while LAX is 3,500 acres.

I can't imagine that anyone who has ever seen LAX from the air would make such a ridiculous gaffe. Which leads me to wonder: It's bad enough that Sarah Palin hasn't traveled much overseas, but how much has she even traveled around the U.S.?