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Among likely voters of this poll, it's McCain 48, Obama 47.

Right how he's a rock star. That will all change as he gets dragged into the fray and becomes just another politician. If he's polling 48% as a rock star, imagine what he polls as a politician.

McCain's job is to drag him into a fistfight in a phone booth.

"If all men were just, there would be no need of valor."
- Agesilaus

I would have bet that Hillary would have won the Democrat Primary. I would have bet that McCain would have dropped out of the race months ago.

I don't bet anymore.

As a long time Clinton supporter, I can vouch for it that the media will declare John McCain's candidacy pushing up daisies until November 4th. They will cite a thousand reasons he will be defeated in a landslide, and all it amounts to is their incessant browbeating to diminish his momentum, fundraising, and popular appeal. As a die hard Clinton supporter I can vouch for this, having just lived through it. The more the media megaphone unleashed on her, the more she and we fought and bypassed them to reach out to people, and the more she won. Even outspent by up to 4 to 1, the voters gave her their votes.

By overplaying it's hand with Obama, the liberal media has now convinced half the Democratic Party that they lie, distort and manipulate, and they deceive their audiences for their own ends, and FOX News is the most fair and balanced. That's a gift that will keep on giving. Countless Clinton supporters are now far more open minded as a result, and won't readily buy into their line of BS as we once would have.

All the time I am hearing Clinton supporters say things like, "McCain didn't say '100 years' in Iraq, and he's right, it's the casualties that count, not whether we are there." And, "he's not too old, that's ageism and we should be fighting it." They aren't buying the deceptions, now they want to hear the whole story, not a calculated snippet.

When you hear posters saying negative things about John McCain, please remember that Obama has both paid and volunteer legions of online posters and bloggers who have been trained to strategically use the right language to try to crush any support for their opposition, and they care nothing about truth or fairness. Winning at all costs is their only motto.

Republicans used nonsense like the Vince Foster tragedy to smear the Clintons in the '90s, and the taxpayers had to spend $60 million investigating only to find nothing to it but a smear campaign. This year Richard Mellon Scaife's Pittsburg Tribune actually endorsed Hillary Clinton right before the PA primary, because she was not who they made her out to be back then, but is an experienced, brilliant, hardworking public servant worthy of respect, as John McCain is. Disagree with policies and ideas of either candidate, but they are both honorable people with much to offer our country.

What none of us need in the White House is an inexperienced, arrogant empty suit product of the corrupt, election fraud based Chicago political machine. There are 18 million Democrats who voted for Clinton who are looking at John McCain with a new perspective, and many are begging for a good reason to vote for him. Many will lodge a protest vote against the Democratic Party even without a single good reason to vote for him.

The last WAPO/ABC News poll showed that 24% of Clinton voters intend voting for McCain, and another 13% will stay home or vote third party. That is a total of 37% of Clinton supporters who refuse to vote for Obama. Many of us are organizing to oppose Obama.

My request: compromise and move to the center, and save our country from a situation where people who believe voter fraud, voter intimidation, vote theft and threats of rioting and interpersonal violence are appropriate ways to win elections will be in control of the executive branch at the same time both houses of Congress are dominated by Democrats. Think about what will happen to free and fair elections if the voter fraud wing of the Democratic Party takes complete control of our government. They stopped at nothing to take the nomination away from Clinton, do you think they will have any scruples when dealing with Republican candidates all over this country?

Seriously, think strategically. If even life long Liberal Democrats like myself are arriving in droves to try to explain why our guy is really bad news, and we are supporting John McCain even though we disagree totally with most of his views, you know the situation is worthy of real concern.

If John McCain loses this upcoming election, I would advise that Republicans everywhere should become as involved as possible your local election boards, to try to cpmbat election fraud on every level, to prevent it from becoming so rampant that it will be impossible to dislodge as it has been in Chicago. Chicago "smackdown" politics is not a good model for democracy, and plenty of Democrats will join you in fighting it.

Now is the time the McCain campaign needs your support, energy, and donations. Clinton supporters disillusioned with the Democratic Party must be outreached now, before the massive PR machine behind Obama can run away with them. Give us a reason to feel welcomed and toss us a few bones on policy to remove the stiffest objections. It won't be as painful as you might think, and I believe the rewards will be enormous.

You may even find that most of us are good people who love our country and want the best for all of us, too.

Obama now has a consistent 4 point lead nationally in all major polls I've seen. He's surged and is holding that lead. Go over to the Campaign Spot and look at key state head-to-heads in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania. He's surging even more there. Pretending his surge has fizzled isn't going to change the fact that he's holding a measurable, not-shrinking lead and at the moment it looks like an electoral landslide. McCain better keep on hitting hard and harder, and President and Mrs. Bush should be kept muzzled since the President's instincts are to send his wife out on the road to stick up for Michelle Obama.

Sen. Barack Obama has emerged from his bruising battle for the Democratic presidential nomination with only a six point lead over Sen. John McCain and claiming his Republican rival has been getting a "pass" from the media.

Uh... so a guy who became the DNC Nominee with no experience and HORRIBLE judgement, who surrounds himself with all sorts of anti-american racists, reguarly spouts off marxism, has had issues with lying and hasn't provided any substance for his campaign beyond "Hope for Change" is complaining that the Republican McCain is getting a pass?

Why do I see the "Fairness Doctrine" coming from this guy?

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Dependence is Slavery.

You should read all todays polls and go to www.fivethirtyeight.com
There's a lot of bounce.
Two odd things - the media never discussed McCain's "Bounce" when he clinched. Actually he fell 2-3 points, so maybe that's way.
And in no previous election has a bounce been expected for merely clinching. The "bounce" is post convention.
It's a loing way to November but unless McCain fixes up his horrific staff situation and can think of a reason why he is not George Bush, he won't be needed on January 20, 2009.

They set up their own high expectations for Obama and then talk about how weak he is for not meeting their expectations.

While most of the RedState writers see the media as shills for the Left, I see them more as just trying to do anything to sell ad copy. Controversy sells. A dramatic turnaround sells. A close race sells. That editorial seems to be right on that track, trying to show a small lead as a sign of weakness, hoping to keep the race close so people pay attention.

If Obama was up by 20 that would be news for a day, but boring for 5 months. It all comes down to selling advertising.

He accuses McCain of getting a pass? By a pass did he mean not getting any media attention other then when he screwed something up? Cause if I remember correctly all the Dems were saying, "This long pirmary will be great, we'll be in the news while McCain won't get any coverage"

"Barack Obama 08: Has my waffles and eats them too."

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