Confessions Of A Politics Geek

I have been watching McCain all season and I just noticed something.  Have you noticed that his daughter never smiles?  She does not clap.  It seems she is just the opposite of Cindy who smiles, claps and cheers.  Is it possible that she feels she needs to be there for dad but does not go [...]

Here’s our daily composite of the five major national tracking polls. With one day of post-debate sampling now incorporated into the three-day tracking poll, there hasn’t been much of a change so far in Barack Obama’s big lead:
• Gallup*: Obama 51%, McCain 45%, with a ±2% margin of error, unchanged from yesterday.
• Rasmussen: Obama 50%, [...]

Sen. Barack Obama holds leads in four key counties that will go a long way toward determining the eventual winner in four important swing states — Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia — according to a new Politico/Insider Advantage survey.
Obama is poised to expand on recent Democratic gains in three populous suburban counties — Pennsylvania’s Bucks [...]

• Gallup: Obama 52%, McCain 41%, with a ±2% margin of error, unchanged from yesterday.  Obama’s widest lead in the Gallup poll for the campaign so far.
• Rasmussen: Obama 50%, McCain 45%, with a ±2% margin of error, compared to a 51%-45% Obama lead yesterday.
• Hotline/Diageo: Obama 47%, McCain 41%, with a ±3.3% margin of [...]

From Politico
The puzzling reference to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as “that one” by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has become the most-discussed moment of a bland, forgettable presidential “debate.”
“It’s President That One to you,” a poster on Daily Kos chided McCain.
A website, http://www.thatone08.com, is selling T-shirts featuring both McCain and Obama, and has a logo with [...]

• Gallup: Obama 49%, McCain 42%, with a ±2% margin of error, compared to a 48%-43% Obama lead yesterday.
• Rasmussen: Obama 51%, McCain 44%, with a ±2% margin of error, unchanged from yesterday.
• Hotline/Diageo: Obama 48%, McCain 42%, with a ±3.2% margin of error, compared to a 47%-42% Obama lead yesterday.
• Research 2000: Obama 51%, [...]

This one is pretty funny!