Today's Gallup poll: Obama up, McCain down

http://www.gallup.com/poll/109348/Gallup-Daily-Obama-47-McCain-42.aspx

Proof the McCain ads against Obama are working...for OBAMA! :thumbsup:

With a side order of his sordid past re: his cheating on and then divorcing his first wife for Cindy? :D

...let the next lame thing just spill out!

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Is John McCain Stupid?
July 31, 2008; Page A13 WSJ
Is John McCain losing it?

On Sunday, he said on national television that to solve Social Security "everything's on the table," which of course means raising payroll taxes. On July 7 in Denver he said: "Senator Obama will raise your taxes. I won't."


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In this sports-crazed country, everyone has learned a lot about what it takes to win. They've heard and seen it proven repeatedly that to achieve greatness, to win the big one, an athlete has to be ready to "put in the work."

John McCain isn't doing that, yet. He's competing as if he expects the other side to lose it for him. Sen. McCain is a famously undisciplined politician. Someone in the McCain circle had better do some straight talking to the candidate. He's not some 19-year-old tennis player who's going to win the U.S. presidential Open on raw talent and the other guy's errors. He's not that good.

There is a reason the American people the past 100 years elevated only two sitting senators into the White House -- JFK and Warren Harding. It's because they believe most senators, adept at compulsive compromise, have no political compass and will sell them out. Now voters have to do what they prefer not to. Yes, Sen. McCain has honor and country. Another month of illogical, impolitic remarks and Sen. McCain will erase even that. Absent a coherent message for voters, he will be one-on-one with Barack Obama in the fall. He will lose.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121745962594698731.html?mod=sphere_wd

just feels bad for his wife and nobody should use this for political gain. Yeah, SURE that's why. :eyes:

to attack Obama (just as Hillary did) and he got the same result. Obama drops in the polls for a couple of days and then pulls ahead again. We saw that happen over and over during the primaries. I will admit I was worried when the Republicans started to attack with the media's help (mainly because of what happened to Kerry). However, I feel much better now that there is a good chance that he will have the same pattern (drop for a couple of days and then pull ahead again).