Even Florida? Could it be a Landslide?

The NewYorkTimes is reporting that Obama/Biden have pulled ahead in the polls by 3 - 8 points! This is amazing. The most disturbing quote in the article was this one:

"Anecdotally, though, Mr. Obama seems to have made some headway. At Christina’s, a family restaurant in downtown New Port Richey, the red leather stools at the counter held both Republicans tried-and-true, and Republicans, like Chris Hart, 48, who had begun to sour on Mr. McCain.

“Every time you turn around, he flips,” Mr. Hart said. A front-desk clerk at a local Y.M.C.A, he said he was also motivated by his need for health insurance, which had recently forced him to buy antibiotics at pet stores because it was cheaper than the pharmacy."

The Bush/McShame policies are a disgrace!

FiveThirtyEight polls: nation looking bluer and bluer. As to why, read this article about the difference between the ground campaigns of the Dems and repugs. It's illuminating. Here's the concluding point:

"You could take every McCain volunteer we’ve seen doing actual work in the entire trip, over six states, and it would add up to the same as Obama’s single Thornton, CO office. Or his single Durango, CO office. These ground campaigns bear no relationship to each other."

Latest Polls and Trouble for Rethugs

Thanks, Jim for Monday's reporting from Gallup.

Obama 50 McCain 42

And lifted shamelessly from ThePoliticalCarnival (as I race out the door)
The latest Democracy Corps survey of the competitive battleground House districts "reveals an intensely angry electorate, even more sour on Republicans who have not distanced themselves enough from Bush and are now at risk even at the edge of the current map of competitive congressional seats."

"Democratic candidates are now ahead by 4 points in the 40 most vulnerable Republican seats, even in the bottom tier. A near majority of 48% in these Republican seats say they 'can't vote to re-elect' their Republican incumbent, while Democrats are ahead in the open seats."

AND this...
"The CIA's former top administrator pleaded guilty today to steering agency contracts to a defense contractor and concealing their relationship, making Kyle "Dusty" Foggo the highest-ranking member of a federal intelligence or law enforcement agency to be convicted of a crime..."

I Can't Stand It...

Yesterday new reports of Obama moving ahead in the polls, SlickSarah once again looks like an idiot in an interview, the repug campaign wants to postpone the VP debate, too and on the HuffPost article about McShame's "suspension of his campaign" there were over 10,000 comments before they reset the number back to 4,000. And truly, the idiotic decision - oops, I mean campaign stunt - warrants the outrage that was reflected. But rather than repeat some of those comments (many priceless), here's David Letterman on the issue:

More Slime...Fake McShame Letters..and GOOD News

McCain campaign hires ghostwriters to create fake letters to the editor - focus on touting Palin as the VP choice. Reported by Salon.com.

ABC/WashPost poll shows Obama strongly ahead of repubs and having regained ground with white women lost after Hillary. Restores my faith in my sisters. YAY!! I ask, like some of the commentators, who are the 17% that think the country is moving in the right direction and what are they smoking?

Obama/Biden 08

Restoring My Faith...

...in my fellow Americans. Over the weekend I read about a focus group of Florida voters the majority of which have been swayed to vote for Obama because of McCain's choice of Palin.

Now, today, similar good judgment shown in New Mexico:
"Sarah Palin is not playing well with New Mexico voters. 46% say her selection made them less likely to vote for John McCain, compared to 38% who say it made them more likely to do so. Among independents her disapproval rating is 47%, and Obama has a 51-35 advantage with that group."

A new Public Policy Polling survey in New Mexico shows Sen. Barack Obama with a double-digit lead over Sen. John McCain, 53% to 42%."

Last night I was one of many making 490,000 calls for MoveOn to get members to the Obama campaign office in Lafayette, Indiana. They blew past their goal of 200,000 calls. It was a blast. Check out MoveOn or the Obama sight's Neighbor-to-Neighbor action resource.

GObama!

Current Polls - Great News

Couldn't help but lift this photo from The Political Carnival (who had lifted it from another site).


Hope you'll check my earlier post today (great stuff there), but the latest polls warrants its own post. Check out Obama vs McCain on this poll site!

Lookin' good for Barack and Joe.