If I can add one juvenile comment here....

ohio sucks.

Why is McCain not clinging to his lead Eric?

Oh my god the sky is falling!

Concern trolls unite!

And there are no Hispanics?

I know Survey USA is reasonably reliable, but these numbers are strange.

The percentage of independents seems pretty low, as well.

I looked at the cross-tabs and they don't look out of hand, just like the SurveyUSA internals earlier. (although those appeared to overcount McCain's support among black voters)

The difference between this one and the VA poll is that in VA, Obama is getting 87% of the Dem vote. In Ohio, it's just 77%. We're never going to win back those Reagan Dems, are we? And Obama's never going to top 80% Dem support in Ohio. Can they just switch parties already of become indies? I know there are state level contests but if you're never going to vote for a Dem for President, are you really a Dem?

The amazing thing is that 58% of the folks polled list the economy at the top issue and Obama leads with those voters by 8pts, but is still down 4 overall. I guess the question is - why is it the top issue for only 58% of those polled?

Finally, in their last poll from late June, Obama led by 2%. While he's doing slightly but not much better among men, he went from a 24pt lead among women to a 4pt lead. (?!?!?!?) He also went from a 33pt lead among the under 35s to a 13pt lead among that same age demo. In June, he was winning pro-choice voters, 65-28. This month it's 61-35. Translation - working class white women - many of them under 35 - are flocking to McCain/Palin because the shiny, new object recently added to that ticket has grabbed their attention. Will it last?

Obama needs to follow up on the line Biden used today about dignity.

He needs to start saying that McCain has lost his dignity, in terms of how low he goes in this campaign...and what's worse he wants to take yours too.

There is no dignity in not being able to put for on the table.
There is no dignity in not being able to pay your bills.
There is no dignity in not being able to get healthcare for your spouse.
There is no dignity when your pension plan and life savings are reneged on by your employer or washed down the drain in this financial crisis.

John McCain lost his dignity and now he wants yours.

I say no way, no how, no Mc Cain.

this will resonate with the voters and it will be a great soundbite.

Ion, the people ARE idiots. Half of them anyway. Why do you doubt it? They 'identify' with Sarah Palin? What the hell does that mean for their jobs and savings and kids' education? It's sad, frustrating and angering, and the rest of us who give a shit about things other than moose-gutting and POW bullshit suffer the consequences.

I'm sure you mean a narrow lead Erik. I'm so sure, I'll just pretend that you wrote that initially, and won't even mention it again. Until your next round of breathless poll headlines of course.

Ah, for those heady days when Obama was only days away from going up 60% - 40% as soon as Senator Clinton's black star faded from the limelight, was going to unite Americans across all party, gender, racial, and economic lines (despite absolutely no history of every having done so!), and how he was going to take all 50 states and earn a huge mandate for change, as opposed to Senator Clinton's so-characterized tacky little plan to simply win the election by the smallist amount possible - Obama was going to win big, while Clinton was only willing to win small!

Now, Obama the supposed uniter has had to turn to Clinton to unite the party for him, lacking the balls that Kennedy had to put his biggest opponent but also the biggest vote getter at his side, and has been reduced to contradicting his commitment to change by choosing an old-guard senator as his running mate, while his supporters continue to spit on Clinton supporters and rant about their disloyalty and the payback coming their way.

LOL!!!

So, where is the great uniter and why hasn't he united the party, not to mention the various other non-Democrats in the country who he was supposed to bring together into a great big Coalition of the Willing [for Change]?

Why is Obama tracking back to the middle and more importantly why are his supporters not taking him to task for that after bitterly and viciously criticizing Senator Clinton for the same?

Why are Obama supporters demanding that he go on the attack more when they equally bitterly and viciously condemned such tactics as the "politics of the past," when Senator Clinton was still in the race?

Well, cultism knows no bounds in rationalization.

Maybe Obama should stop running for National Therapist and actually run for president and maybe his supporters should stop looking for a National Therapist and start looking for a leader.

Or you call all just sit in a circle, sing Kumbahyah, continue to viciously disparage anyone who disagrees with your cultish obsession with Obama the personality, and bury your head in the sand of denial about what the polls are telling you about Obama the candidate.

Obama claims to be the uniter, so it is up to him to win women and Reagan Democrats back - it ain't the job of the Clintons. If Obama can't win these groups back on his own, then he won't be able to unite even the Democrats in Congress, should he eke out a win, much less independents and conservatives in Congress. And that was the whole point of his candidacy, right?

Hmmmmmmm, McCain is "UP" 4 pts and Obama has "NARROW" 4 pts. Am I missing something here??????

Who. Cares. ?

Who GIVES a shit about these polls? They're worthless. Take a look at the Party Affiliation of the poll and tell me if that makes any sense at all. No. It does not.

Next month I'll start paying attention.