AHHH the roof looks like it is losing support. Not falling yet, but certainly unstable and I'm VERY worried!!

And the women - they are deserting him! O alas! O ruin!

The horror. The horror.

Holy Kramerica, the Messiah has returned. And she can kill wolves. From an airplane.

McCain's bounce isn't stable enough to last through the remaining weeks. Many of these polls NBC/WSJ not included, are outliers, over sampling republicans and underestimating the youth, black and latino vote.

He's down by 11 in Montana now!!! That was supposed to be Obama's! Our once great empire is crumbling around us and we can only watch the pieces fall apart unless we are lucky enough that a chunk of debris hits us in the head and knocks us unconscious for at least a few sweet moments of escape from this nightmare!

Why!!??? What did we do to deserve this?!?

There's some telling information in that poll. Obama still leads on the change message and McCain is seen as holding the same views as Bush by a significant majority (74%).

I can live with this situation.

A more appropriate headline:

McCain Bounce Subsides

someone tell me why is a bureaucrat is somehow negative? McCain says this in his stump speeches often as a negative for Obama.

bureaucrat - Government employee who follows a rigid procedure in administering the responsibilities of a position. A classical bureaucrat follows a set of rules and procedures in an impersonal manner. A bureaucrat is a career professional evaluated on the basis of merit and skill.

Now if George W. Bush, Cheney, Rove, and McCain himself had followed policy and not act on their morals and ideologies America wouldn't be in such a financial hole that we're in right now.

I just got finished phone banking with voters in Virginia. Although there were some hard-liners, one woman,voting for Obama, still did not know about Sarah Palin's views on choice, global warming or the Bridge to Nowhere. She was quite concerned about the choice issue, and I asked her to talk to her friends who like Sarah Palin. Also one man I talked to told me he's voting for McCain because (and I paraphrase) "he's all Mavricky and stuff". Actually, he was very intelligent and articulate, so we had a long conversation about veteran's benefits. I asked him to please check these issues out, because it's too important to vote without vetting our candidates. And maybe he'll do that.

Please people, start doing this! It will get out information to the voters that isn't being told, and will make you feel one hell of a lot beter.

Politics are inherently antagonistic and combative, it is inherently a game of mobilizing grievances and resentments. The Republicans realized this a long time ago. Why it has taken the dems so long to figure this out is beyond me. Populist rhetoric is inherently antagonistic but there are different types of populisms. The Right, not wanting to threaten the power of the financial and corporate elite, has, since Nixon, employed a cultural form (as opposed to economic) of populism and it has worked. The Left not only needs to engage the culture war head on rather than denying it exists if they want to defuse the Palin-effect but also needs to present an alternative type of populism.
Why doesn't the Obama campaign focus on how investing in green technologies and green jobs can make our country a nation of PRODUCERS again, like in the time of the greatest generation. Why doesn't Obama use a type of nationalist-populist rhetoric that is based on domestic production ("made in America") and call out McCain for being a PRO-EXPORTATION politician? Republican's do not only oppose greater energy independence but also greater industrial independence. America has a long populist history based around the producer ethic, i.e. the dignity in production and the producer classes, speak to it or let this b.s. culture war populism of the Right win the day AGAIN!

That poll also reveals voters are increasingly more comfortable with Obama as C-in-C and relate to his values and background.

It's encouraging, and not discouraging.

Two months left.

And seriously-- Obama was never going to win Montana. He could have kept it close, but Palin hurt that effort. The state hadn't polled in ages.

And buckle up! Now Drudge is trying--trying-- to say Obama called Palin a pig. What a country.

McCain uses phrase "Lipstick on a pig"

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/obama_did_not_call_sarah_palin.php

John McCain. Speaking about Hillary Clinton....

McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's plan, he said it was "eerily reminiscent" of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.

"I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal.

Huge swing there Eric

As for the "enthusiasm" meme - pure bunkum

It is entirely a function of whether a candidate's supporters think she has a chance to win

The poll confirms what other surveys have found, that the selection of Sarah Palin has helped McCain make inroads with women voters. Obama led by 14 points among women in the last poll, but now that lead is down to four points.

Eric, the poll you're siting doesn't break down the women vote. Where do you get your women breakdown from? Are you espoucing washington conventional talk? or are you extrapolating gallup poll to mean NBC poll? Please explain?

btw, how's that whole Rezco thing going for ya?

Okay, Erik, I appreciate that you intentionally ignored the MSM convention that says if McCain leads by a poll, the headline is "McCain Pulls Ahead," but if Obama is ahead by a point, its "Dead Heat!" Really, I do. But did you have to use the "C" word?

Dear Barack Obama,

I saw you on Keith Olbermann the other day. I can't remember a thing you said.

I remember every clear word from Keith, his thinly disguised pleas to *just do it*!

My TV is frothing over with McCain ads. I hope Adam McKay is wrong, but I FEEL he is dead on: "We're gonna friggin' lose this thing." http://tinyurl.com/dems-be-sober

Here, now I've donated 50 bucks. Go buy an ad or something.

The reason we're not seeing ads in CA is because CA is comfortably blue.
We should count our blessings ;)

That's my point. Even when people are literally in a hole, they still can't seem to figure it out. If it was just a matter of economics, 98 percent of the country would be for Obama. But that isn't the case.

If you were around during the Reagan years, what do you remember? The "Trickle Down" theory. Many, many people, including some of the most respected economists STILL believe that garbage to this day. It never did work and it never will work, but the point is, the saying stuck in the minds of the people. Let's face it, a huge percentage of Americans are not exactly deep thinkers. And that's putting it as kindly as I can. These same people voted in Reagan, BushI and BushII. And a lot of them are primed and ready to do it all over again.

OMG.

Halperin on CNN said that McCain complains about the lipstick on a pig comments are "Crocodile tears"

Am I dreaming? Am I dead?

As I called it earlier, Obama's response about McCain's honor and the sex-we ad was POW POW POW'd!!

Here's one for Eric:

http://www.diageohotlinepoll.com/

Presidential Race Remains Close, 45% McCain-Palin - 44% Obama-Biden

Enthusiasm Gap Remains Between Supporters of the Two Candidates

Enthusiasm Gap Remains. The poll finds that an "enthusiasm gap" remains between supporters of the two candidates, with 55% of McCain-Palin voters and 64% of Obama-Biden voters saying they are "enthusiastically supporting" their candidate.

As a result, among all voters who enthusiastically support their candidates, the Obama-Biden ticket holds a slight 53%-47% edge over the McCain-Palin ticket that is currently within the margin of error. (n=482 registered voters, margin of error +/-4.5%)

The thing is, all these narrow polls sets things up for the thugs to steal another election.

If the polls are close, and we wake up on the morning of Nov. 3rd with McCain having won the election, will people object? En mass?

If the polls were close, they'll except the results - and we'll have another stollen election, and 8 more years of Republican rule.

Personally, at that point, unless you like the idea of living in Brazil, or Mexico or someother banana republic, anyone who can get out of the country and get legal residence in another country should. I would recommend New Zealand or Australia: they speak English, rely on exporting raw products to developing markets in Asia, have lots of room for new comers. Canada is too close to the U.S. - and could be drawn down with our implosion. The fork in the road gets wider with each election that the Republicans win, from 2000 on out. 2000 was a coup. This is a high stakes election. It will take huge numbers to reverse the tide. At one point I thought Obama, with his charisma, could pull off a land slide which is what would be required. At this point, I don't think that is possible. This is a high stakes election. Crap!

The thing is, all these narrow polls sets things up for the thugs to steal another election.

If the polls are close, and we wake up on the morning of Nov. 3rd with McCain having won the election, will people object? En mass?

If the polls were close, they'll except the results - and we'll have another stollen election, and 8 more years of Republican rule.

Personally, at that point, unless you like the idea of living in Brazil, or Mexico or someother banana republic, anyone who can get out of the country and get legal residence in another country should. I would recommend New Zealand or Australia: they speak English, rely on exporting raw products to developing markets in Asia, have lots of room for new comers. Canada is too close to the U.S. - and could be drawn down with our implosion. The fork in the road gets wider with each election that the Republicans win, from 2000 on out. 2000 was a coup. This is a high stakes election. It will take huge numbers to reverse the tide. At one point I thought Obama, with his charisma, could pull off a land slide which is what would be required. At this point, I don't think that is possible. This is a high stakes election. Crap!

The thing is, all these narrow polls sets things up for the thugs to steal another election.

If the polls are close, and we wake up on the morning of Nov. 3rd with McCain having won the election, will people object? En mass?

If the polls were close, they'll except the results - and we'll have another stollen election, and 8 more years of Republican rule.

Personally, at that point, unless you like the idea of living in Brazil, or Mexico or someother banana republic, anyone who can get out of the country and get legal residence in another country should. I would recommend New Zealand or Australia: they speak English, rely on exporting raw products to developing markets in Asia, have lots of room for new comers. Canada is too close to the U.S. - and could be drawn down with our implosion. The fork in the road gets wider with each election that the Republicans win, from 2000 on out. 2000 was a coup. This is a high stakes election. It will take huge numbers to reverse the tide. At one point I thought Obama, with his charisma, could pull off a land slide which is what would be required. At this point, I don't think that is possible. This is a high stakes election. Crap!

Anyone know what party ID representation was like in this poll?