With leaners
Obama – 48%
McCain – 45%
Without leaners
Obama – 45%
McCain – 42%
While Gallup shows a 9 point lead, Rasmussen’s numbers tighten. McCain gets a net 2 point gain in each today.
Here’s why…
Tracking results are based upon nightly telephone interviews with 1,000 Likely Voters and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. Following his speech in [...]

After traveling to Afghanistan and Iraq with Barack Obama, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel had this to say:
“Each candidate has strengths and weaknesses, and experience does matter. But what matters more in my opinion is character and judgment. And judgment meaning who is it that you bring around, who is it that you listen to? Can [...]

A 2 point net jump since yesterday and the first time Obama has lead McCain by such a wide margin. It also represents the first time any candidate has reached the 49% mark in Gallup’s polling.

The question now: how long will it last?
A key question remains as to whether this “bounce” is short-term (as happens [...]

Who knew the views he expressed last fall would be so popular nowadays? And this overseas trip only put an exclamation point on the fact that many seem to adopting his stances in one way or another.
Frank Rich breaks it down…
First, on July 7, the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, dissed Bush dogma by raising [...]

Of course many are crying about the “liberal-media” bias favoring Obama, but it looks like that’s not the case.
From the LA Times:
The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican [...]

With leaners
Obama – 49%
McCain – 44%
Without leaners
Obama – 46%
McCain – 41%
McCain gains the point he lost on Friday, but now there’s 3 straight days with Obama having a significant lead.
The 5 day w/leaners:
07/27/2008: McCain – 44%, Obama – 49%
07/26/2008: McCain – 43%, Obama – 49%
07/25/2008: McCain – 44%, Obama – 49%
07/24/2008: McCain – 45%, Obama [...]

Charles Blow observes what many of us have suspected for quite some time now…that we’re really not all that much different when you take a look at what we believe:
• Six in 10 Americans believe that conservation should be emphasized to solve the energy problem, 7 in 10 favor the death penalty for murder and [...]

With leaners
Obama – 49%
McCain – 43%
Without leaners
Obama – 46%
McCain – 40%
McCain lost one since yesterday so it appears as if Obama’s overseas bounce continues to cause trouble for the Arizona senator.
Rasmussen lends some historical perspective to the idea of Obama flirting with 50%…
Over the coming week, it will be interesting to see if the bounce [...]

A couple more days of this and the “Berlin Bump” may just be real.

The details…
Obama’s particularly large leads over McCain in Friday and Saturday’s tracking suggest that the massive publicity surrounding Obama’s speech at the Victory Tower in Berlin on Friday — the only major public event of the trip — and coverage of Obama’s [...]

Not all moderates and independents are enamored with a toe-the-party-line Democratic President, a 100 vote Democratic majority in the House, and a filibuster proof Democratic Senate all promising more taxes, more regulation, more spending programs, more faith based initiatives, less free trade, mandatory government service, no new drilling, anda return to corrupt single party K-Street earmark business as usual.

A criminal complaint has been filed by the Enquirer and so there’s a very good chance that Edwards will be contacted about the following incident…
The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced Edwards — whom he did not immediately recognize — in a hotel men’s room early Tuesday morning in a [...]

Watch…

Now remember, Maliki didn’t just say this once…he said it twice. And then other Iraqi officials said “2010″ specifically. There was no mistranslation. So when McCain says “he won’t,” well, that ship has already sailed. Maliki “has” and McCain not wanting to accept that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
More as it develops…

McCain – 46%
Obama – 40%
This one slipped past me a few days ago. What’s more…looks like McCain opens up a 10 point lead on Obama when you account for leaners 52% to 42%.
Last month the margin was only 1 point, with McCain getting 44% and Obama getting 43%.
Some details…

McCain is supported by 88% of [...]

An overseas bounce? A Berlin bump?
Whatever it is…this matches the biggest leads Obama has had in the past two months.

Gallup talks about the trends to look for…
Now, on the basis of a strong showing in Thursday night’s Gallup interviewing, Obama is back to a 6-point margin over McCain. On Thursday Obama made his highly-anticipated [...]

With leaners
Obama – 49%
McCain – 44%
Without leaners
Obama – 46%
McCain – 41%
We may finally be seeing a bump for Obama’s overseas trip, as Gallup is showing a similar trend today as well.
Some details…
This is the first time that Obama has enjoyed a five point advantage since July 8. It’s also the first time he has [...]

Yesterday, Barack Obama gave one of his Important Speeches to the people of Berlin. The words were, as always, uplifting and the message chock-full of calls for unity. He used the fall of the Berlin wall as a continuing motif, a metaphor for world unity. That led to this riff:
The walls between old allies on [...]

Green (i.e. environmentally friendly) products are no longer on the fringes of consumer options. They’re mainstream. In fact, “being green” has turned into such a marketing plus that companies are using green language to promote products that aren’t at all environmentally sound. As a result, consumer groups and government bodies are working to combat fraudulent [...]

Apparently it’s not actually torture unless the one doing the interrogation intends to cause severe pain or suffering. And if it “accidentally” happens over the course of months or years, well…you can’t make an omelet…
So how do I know this? Well, the ACLU requested the following memos under the Freedom of Information Act and pieces [...]

Obama – 46
McCain – 44
This is kind of weird, and should definitely be looked at as an outlier at this point. Because last month Quinnipiac had Obama up by 17 points.
Some demo info…

Obama tops McCain 51 – 38 percent with women.
Men back McCain 49 – 42 percent.
White voters split 45 – 45 percent.
The Democrat leads [...]

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Ultimately I think this speech was a worldwide call to unite in the War on Terrorism, and in that respect I think it could help him.
What did you think?