Mr Bias / Rick Klein, Did you think that perhaps 3% is an outlier poll. How can Obama be dominating in state polls yet so close in the national polls. Could it be perhaps that out of say the 1000 people polled there was too high of a percentage of folks say from Texas, WV, or Kentucky, where in the first Newsweek Poll it was the opposite. My bet would be it is somewhere in between the 15% and 3%. But suggesting this would not help you or ABC with your anti Obama comentary now would it.

Obama took alot of small hits at the end of the primary and a few in the last few months although the hits he took in the primary were small he hasnt been able to shake all of them off.

mccain not taking any hits from the primary that has followed him you would think that he would be in a much stronger place but the problem is that he has taken a few BIG hits and they were self induced with his own words about economy and my opinion the biggest mistake being iran jokes because he claimed his STRENGTH was in foreign affairs and then shows a huge lack of judgment and understanding that even those countries who arent overly friendly with iran would cringe at what he said and lose any respect for him...

Just think of all the caroons, jokes and hits Bush took, there was no whining or outrage. I guess we are going to have to stomach another apology to the annointed one. Apologies, Obama regrets this and that ad nausium

The surge has worked and improvements are now a landmark in Iraq but Obama said “we have lowered the bar, so that it looks like we are making success”. What is this man delusional? We have pumped billions of American taxpayer’s money, our soldier’s have sacrificed, our families have sacrificed, our people have worked hard to achieve and now that we have Obama wants to remove any sense of accomplishment from the American people. Is he completely overlooking what was going on in this region before the war? Is he completely overlooking what will be at our front door steps if we didn’t take any action? Yes, the war was probably started under false evidence, but that is in the past. You move forward. You fix the problems in life that you might have created by a mistake, you do not run and hide!

So Obama plans to “cut and run”, he plans to have ALL combat brigades gone by the summer of 2010, leaving only “non-combat residual force” behind. Oh yes, that will surely scare Al Qaeda and all jihadists around the globe---American’s live in fantasy world---we can plan now, fortify and take the region easily in two years.

America didn’t get great by “running and hiding”, “hoping or wishing” that the enemies will just go away. So many Americans were willing to sacrifice giving their lives if needed to give this thing we call “freedom” to our children and children to come. Obama believes we can negotiate, and talk with the jihadists and that all the talking so far over the years have not been the “right” conversations. To bad Obama can’t tell the thousands that have died, or the thousands that have worked the region to secure a better life for the Iraq people and to secure a better life for Americans, this is his plan for success. Denying the obvious and to “wish” the bad guys away does not make them go away---I guess a lesson will have to be learned the hard way in life and the sacrificing of a nation the result.

Who is talking about Newsweek polls except the media. Newsweek should be renamed Obamaweek they are so much in the tank. look at Rasmussen and Gallop polls.

They BOTH suck!

Bring back Hillary. Please dear god, I can't vote for either of them. This race is empty and depressing without her, she was the rockstar all along, not Obama!

The dems threw away the best candidate.

Like feverish influenza patients some American people are veering off into nonsensical delusions of their own making. Deprived of the lurid thrill of Clinton, the desire for electrifying soap-opera-conflict laps around with its dripping lazy tongue, wallowing in obese, prejudiced and alcoholic selfishness. A time of wholesome change is at hand; our virtues and our strengths are being roused to a call that may be bigger than any political party. Whether you want McCain or Obama or someone else, for God's sake get your mind out of the sewer of lurid thinking and realize that politics is best served clean of prurient interests, best seen in the sober light of what is sensible rather than merely stimulating. The Carnival atmosphere is meant to make us vote; what you do with that vote should not be determined by frivolity and excitement, but by adult thinking. God help America.

The surge is working and improvements are now a landmark in Iraq but Obama said “we have lowered the bar, so that it looks like we are making success”. What is this man delusional? We have pumped billions of American taxpayer’s money, our soldier’s have sacrificed, our families have sacrificed, and our military has worked hard to achieve some success. Can’t Obama give anyone credit besides himself? You fix the problems in life that you might have created by a mistake, you do not run and hide! Yes, the people want to hear the soldiers will all be coming home; we all want to hear the war is over, and Obama leans on this same rhetoric all the time as if he is the only one that wants peace. Peace sometimes comes at a cost the only question left to answer is our “freedom” worth the effort? Our forefathers thought it was important, our country thought it was important---but just maybe Obama seems something else happening---the division of America is coming. All his answers seem to point in that direction---he voted no for English to be the country’s language. American’s will have to learn a LOT of languages, I guess depending on who is in charge. They will have to learn Chinese (and, of course to speak it you will have to learn the MANY different dialects); or perhaps learn Russian (different dialects too); or perhaps learn Hindu, of course they have many dialects too, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsha, Guarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam etc. Please some one tell Obama that 86% of all graduating kids today from high schools speak more than one language (they pick one of choice, although the list is huge). All countries of the world learn English, because the greatest country in the world speaks English---no matter where you live in the United States they speak English. Perhaps that has contributed to our sharing of knowledge faster than other countries. It is like Obama is telling people to grow-up, see the light, America is not as good as you think it is and the “rest of the world doesn’t like it” to quote him. This is the man that you want as President, who says he loves this nation and its traditions but his actions daily prove the contradictory.

It's unfortunate that political debates carried out by the common man are simply repeated slogans we hear from the spin machine. It's unfortunate that once a politician is painted in a certain light, that no matter what they do, they are playing into that image. If Obama takes the high road, he's an elitist simp. If he meets challenges with passion, he's a typical politician. If he talks about ulling out, he's (to use the knee-jerk jargon) a "cut-and-run" liberal. If he states that he wants to figure out the most prudent way to pull out, he's going soft on his position. And the fact is that he is being nailed more for who he knows that what he says. If it isn't Rev. Wright it's his cultish followers (who even I resent) or his wife or Bernie Mac or Jesse Jackson or the stereotypical black. Throw in his middle name to get the instant terrorist allusion. It is too easy and too common to microscopically examine a candidate to invalidate him, and no one is more capable of that than The Right. And you'd think the Democrats would have figured out how to defang that beast after Al Gore, and Kerry, and Dean, and any other candidate who, on paper, had nothing to apologize for or scramble to defend. This election is ours to take, and if we don't, it will be our own fault.