Poll Position

Fineman IF you're telling the TRUTH what's the ground feelings about the poll make some GOP not happy,WHY DONT YOU FINEMAN TELLS THEM LIES ..JOHN MCSAME has huge advantage over obama....like 12 % This what GOP PRO LIFE LIKES very much LIES AND LIES.they will appreciates you very much then.

The Newsweek poll had far more to do with creating an aura of superiority for their favored candidate and selling magazines than it did with good polling techniques. The use of landlines only for polling is ridiculous on its face. Most dynamic educated, industrious people hardly use landlines anymore.

How about some actual investigative reporting on McCain's so-called "Hero" status?

He???ro (heer-oh) Noun - a person of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.

OK, I get it, from October 1967, when he was shot down over North Viet Nam while on his 23rd bombing mission, and for the better part of the next 5-years John McCain was indeed a prisoner of war, and he suffered pain and humiliation that only the strongest of individuals could ever endure. I probably wouldn't have lasted a day under those horrific circumstances before turning into a whimpering pile of jelly and confessing to single-handedly planning the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Do those years of obvious Hell in North Viet Nam anoint him with the "Hero" mantel that the brown-nosing chattering heads on TV and genuflecting print media suck-ups slobberingly wrap him in?

I for one think not!

So lets see... we have the Rasmussen and Gallup tracking polls that have been as accurate or more accurate than most during this election season showing Obama 4 points ahead and dead even respectively. We have other polls showing Obama from 4 to 6 points ahead. Then along comes Newsweek, an organization that signed onto the Obama campaign early, and they show Obama ahead by a wopping 15 points. And right after the LA times/Bloomberg poll shows him ahead by 12. LA Times ? Another organization that signed early for the Obama campaign. Also the Gallup and Rasmussen tracking polls have been showing a small decline in Obama's support at the same time that Neweek and the LA Times suddenly show this huge jump. The difference in the polls is well outside of the margins of error so either the Gallup & Rasmussen tracking as well as Fox as well as Gallup USA, all in the tie to 6 point range, are dead wrong, or the in the tank for Obama organizations at 12 & 15 are totally wrong. And Howard surely knows statistics well enough not to use the Real Clear Politics average to declare Gallup tracking an outlier. The average is 6.7% which puts Gallop tracking at a tie 6.7% points off which could indicate an outlier, but that means Newsweek is even further off at 8.3 points, but because Newsweek is so far off they are distorting the average upward. But why worry about it now....as time will surely tell....except for 1 little thing that Howard shares with us. Obama's campaign, which at this point includes the establishment media, was expecting a huge bump for Obama giving him at least a double digit lead ahead of McCain. That hasn't happened making it a little awkward for Obama with all of his recent problems to look like a sure winner and hit up Hillarys big fund raisers. So it looks like the unannounced members of his campaign are obliging him nicely by creating the bump that he expected. Surprise, Surprise!

Word has leaked out this morning that Powell will endorse Barack Obama.

Colin Powell is the most qualified American with regards to managing a safe and orderly withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Barack Obama has given serious VP consideration to Republican Chuck Hagel and Democrat Jim Webb because of their military and foreign policy experience. Who in America has a stronger military or foreign policy resume than Colin Powell?

Clearly his reputation among admiring Democrats was tainted by his loyalty to Bush-Cheyney-Rumsfeld's deceitful march to war, but he regained his dignity by resigning from his post before Bush's second term. This was America's first major sign of internal dissent regarding Bush's foreign policy. Powell on the ticket would aggravate some, but also attract many.

It would be poetic justice for Powell to re-emerge on the political scene as part of the team that knocked the Republicans out of the White House.

If we truly lived in a post-racial society, Colin Powell would be a stronger consideration for Obama's VP spot. Are we there yet? It's an interesting thought. But because of his UN War speech, I doubt that Senator Obama is going to select him for that position.

Obama should poll Moveon to see if they can stomach the Obama-Powell'08 idea (just kidding... no, seriously, wink-wink).

Nonetheless, having Colin Powell campaign for Senator Obama will be a tremendous asset, and will create more headaches for John McCain. President Obama will benefit from using General Powell's advice when he implements his Iraq withdrawal strategy.

OMG, the US is the ONLY country in the world that actually sees McCain as a viable candidate. It's not that world leaders don't respect him; it's just the Obama is clearly the superior, original, unique and intelligent candidate that they are hoping the US public will have the sense and brains to elect. He's someone special, and if we do elect him, especially by a huge margin, it would do worlds of credibility for us with the rest of the world. It would bring us back "into the fold" once again as an outstanding world leader - a populace that the rest of the world can respect and feel warmly toward.

Please do not elect Mr. McCain- he's a great person, a respected war hero, and a seasoned pol, but his sun is setting and so is that of his party. It's time for our political landscape to get a big influx of new and future leaders, with some powerful ideas to move us beyond the Oil Era and into a world where there is more than just one big world leader - where the limelight is shared by several major countries.

out with the old, stale phony posturing of the GOP -that smug self-righteousness that gives us a terrible reputation for arrogance and ignorance overseas. Let's make amends for 8 years of Bush and elect someone truly representative of our great nation: Obama.

The polls indicating Americans are very disappointed in the Democratic Congress goes ignored! Strange? Or typical of Liberals in the news media?The congress has had dismal approval numbers! Lower than Bush (the DNC Congress is more toxic that Bush.)
The BIG POLL and only one that matters will come in November and Obama will be chained to his party's report card...wether he thinks it's fair or not! And time is going by faster than the Congress can move up from "F+" to respectable "C" or above, among the American people.
Maybe it's "commanded" that the congress's repot card doesn't matter, and won't matter in October and November.
Heaven forbid any Liberal go against what-is-commanded or even question who made the command!
The American Liberals and Obama suporters will simply agree:That report card doesn't count... that report card doesn't count... that report card of the Congress doesn't count, as McCain stumbles on, and right into the White House.
Not a great win for Republicans. A stupid lose for the DNC, because no one will command the DNC Congressmen to do a better job!
When you're supporting them you say "yes!" and so not become The Boss who says "GET TO WORK!"
McCain doesn't have anything to worry about. And McCains' scandals are all behind him, now. and out of the way.
It's a long way to November.

PS - Nins, it seems to me that our Senate is the only government in the world still questioning the underlying supply-demand fundamentals of petroleum. The UK gets it, and nobody there is accusing the market of "speculation" - to me, this reads as just another delay and subterfuge as our politictians struggle to appear proactive on prices at the pump. It's b.s., in other words. We are the biggest gas guzzlers in the world - in a few years' time, $4/gallon is going to seem like heaven compared with what's coming if we don't find alternatives to fuel our transportation needs. We should be conserving petroleum not wasting time messing around doing nothing and making a lot noise doing it! - as is happening in the Senate.

Polls can be rigged and it is prett clear yours is. In articles where your poll is listing Obama as having a 15 point lead polls were taken right iwithin the article asking who people preferred and John Mc'Cain won by over 15%. You fail to ever mention that. Also, just about every article I see in your magazine favors Obama. Why does the AOL straw poll (hundreds of thousands of voters) show John McCain in the lead? Why do other polls besides yours show them dead even? We are not stupid and voters (except those who WANT to believe your poll know that it is full o f ****.

to all obama supporters answer this what and how will he change the way the u.s is being run please be specific !!!

you see thats our whole problem we keep posting about him being black or a muslium or about rev wright/pheagler we need to start to address his positions on the issues then the american people will see he don't have a plan of action he won't do town halls with mcCain or debate him in open fourm because with out the telepromter he has no answers to the american people's questions he is weak and hopefully we will be able to expose him to the american voters !!! so lets ask the right questions to his bloggers the first one i'd like is how come he won't meet with mcCain to do town hall meetings!!!

McCain, your duel personality has now been reduced to denial and memory loss.

The first lesson you, McCain, Mr. Duel personality/Mr. Denial/ Memory loss, to draw is that people are really starting to focus on your inability to be a trustworthy person and a real moderate. Everything you have voted against is for the prosperity of this nation.


FYI: you'll probably never be on the cover of "Rolling Stone" Magazine. However, by the conventions time, I can see you on the covers of geriatric magazines advocating how your participation in Alzheimer???s disease has not been helpful.

Count me in with the ones that are against Mr Obama, I am a Clinton supporter an my loyalty is with her AND only her, SHE is not running for President so I am not voting for President.

Polls don't mean much this early on. Some people "leaning:" towards one candidate or another may change their mind. One thing is certain though. Ever since Hillary dropped out, both candidates are running TERRIBLE campaigns. McCain comes across as an out of touch, right wing appeasing, old- fashioned, loyal Bushy republican. Obama's arrogance has mushroomed since the primary season ended, and he has made no overt effort to win over Hillary supporters. He just assumes democrats will unite no matter what he says or does. Let's hope both candidates give us substance. By November we're all going to be exhausted and disgusted if this keeps up.

I live in KY and work in OH. I run into nobody who is supporting Obama. Amongst ourselves we sort of have to whisper about our support for McCain. Many are terribly afraid of being called racist for not supporting the Democrats' new Messiah -- the annointed one: Barack H. Obama.

I listened with amusement to the coverage of Ralph Nader's comments last night. Obama doesn't talk black enough, he said. He is appealing to white guilt. Everyone reacted with shock and horror. How sad and delusional Nader is.

To think he suggested the emperor has no clothes!

I wonder how big the Bradley effect will be. As Maine goes . . . ?