• Daniel Nichanian: McCain Gains Nationally, Leads In Florida; Indiana Even
  • via The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • It's a good thing for Democrats that the convention is just around the corner and that the party will soon regain control of the race with news of Obama’s vice-presidential pick.
• LAT/Bloomberg: A Statistical Dead Heat
  • via Hotline On Call
  • The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll out this evening shows the presidential contest tightening with Barack Obama leading John McCain, 45%-43%. A statistical dead heat. What's the bottom line? A month of negative advertising from the McCain c…
• McCain Takes the Lead?
  • via Outside The Beltway | OTB
  • John McCain has taken the lead for the first time in the RealClearPolitics Electoral College projection, with a 274 to 264 margin, when tossups are included.  (Barack Obama’s still up 228 to 178 in states with solid margins.) Now, this is o…
• New poll shows McCain - Obama in virtual tie
  • via Politics
  • A new LA Times/Bloomberg poll shows John McCain has overcome a 12 point deficit to pull into a virtual dead heat with Barack Obama. The poll, released Tuesday, shows Obama leading McCain by a 45 - 43 percent margin which falls into the three …
• Wed, Aug. 20 Electoral Vote Predictor Obama 264 McCain 261 Ties 13
  • via Electoral-vote.com
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User Comments

• Hope says… “ Why wouldn't Obama be behind at this point? Ever since he became the presumptive nominee he has been the recipient of overwhelmingly negative press, a Democratic party that has not coalesced around his nomination, backstabbing by the Clintons and their supporters, progressives that have assailed his general election shift, and a media that is unwilling to assess McCain with anything less than hero-worship. Americans are so hung up on race that they would rather have an intellectually inferior war monger who is white rather than a highly intelligent black man. What does that say about America? ”