August 1, 2008
Posted: 03:49 PM ET

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McCain has cut Obama’s lead in half this week in the CNN Poll of polls.
McCain has cut Obama’s lead in half this week in the CNN Poll of polls.

(CNN) – John McCain has chipped away at Barack Obama’s lead this week, the latest CNN poll of polls suggests.

CNN Election Center: View the latest state polls

Obama now holds a 3-point lead over McCain in CNN's average of national polls, 47 percent to 44 percent, down from the 5-point margin he held over the presumptive Republican nominee on Wednesday, and half his six-point margin at the beginning of the week in traditionally volatile summer polling.

The poll of polls includes the latest Gallup daily tracking poll, conducted July 29-31, that showed the two candidates tied at 44 percent after several days of back-and-forth between their campaigns over the McCain camp’s tough new anti-Obama ad, and accusations of racial politics on the trail.

“It appears that Obama received a temporary boost from his trip to Europe and the Middle East,” noted CNN Senior Political Researcher Alan Silverleib. “That boost has now faded, but the overall dynamics of the race have not. Obama is still in the lead — as he has been since clinching the Democratic nomination.”

In addition to the Gallup daily tracking poll, the CNN poll of polls also included a Pew poll conducted July 23-27, a USA Today/Gallup survey conducted July 25-27, and a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation conducted July 27-29. The CNN poll of polls does not have a margin of error.

Filed under: Barack Obama • John McCain


bk   August 1st, 2008 4:47 pm ET

Half of the country has already discovered that Obama is a big goof that has to read every word. Now the rest of the country has to wake up. David Axelrod created a movie star with no substance. Obama is more like Bush, arrogant and knows nothing.

Janet   August 1st, 2008 4:47 pm ET

I am already tired of McCain's sarcastic, negative ads. I wanted to vote for him in 2000, but no more. He refuses to advertise what he stands for.

Jane Burdette   August 1st, 2008 4:46 pm ET

John McCain has stooped to a disappointing level with his attacks on Barack Obama this week. Must he resort to dirty politics? I thought he was better than that. Anyone who believes this BS is a very vulnerable and easily manipulated (not to mention unthinking) individual. It resonates of desperation on McCain's part…you can't beat him on the issues so you resort to tacky and extremely distasteful antics. Wake up America!!!! Don't let someone of Obama's caliber get away when we need him the most. He will bring good, solid leadership to our country and regain the respect of the world for the Good Ole USofA…..

Kool-Aid Man   August 1st, 2008 4:46 pm ET

Ohhhhhhh yeahhhhhhh!!!!

Time to rework my Kool-Aid distribution centers!!!

Not reaching enough of the American people. OHHH YEAHHH!

Democracy itself over loyalty to democratic party   August 1st, 2008 4:46 pm ET

Obama, his dirty campaign, his nasty supporters and AAs all banked on the success of the same hateful strategy: bash, trash, ridicule, insult and debase HRC out of the running by any means necessary.

This election year the only thing needed was being the democrat on the ticket in NOV- they all figured the Nation was in such a bad way, and the republican brand SO out of favor, a democratic win so inevitable- that ANY democrat- even the least qualified one could pull a win off.

Once Obama was the last democrat left standing… his path to the white house was ensured- or so the thinking went.

So hate, race-baiting, vulgarity and insults were freely utilized to that end.

They did not count on MORE than half of the party refusing to go along with a fixed primary. They did not figure half the party would forfeit ONE election rather than subvert democracy itself.

Now see us defend the principles of democracy, justice, fair campaigns and the RIGHT to vote.

Democrat   August 1st, 2008 4:46 pm ET

If Obama does not get elected, I am thinking seriously of moving to a different country. I am a middle aged white woman and I don't think I want to stick around and watch our country go down the tubes

Joe   August 1st, 2008 4:45 pm ET

I hope people are not foolish enough to believe that their city will not be
incinerated if McCain becomes president. He wants war with Iran and he wants it nuclear. The man has completely lost his marbles. He has said it over and over again on tv.

Why????   August 1st, 2008 4:45 pm ET

What McCain knows about "The One” when he doesn't believe in anything. What is McCain faith anyway?

Enough of this bull what about this economy, the high gas prices, the unemployment rate, the lead in toys, the food poisoning, the unjust I have endure for many years. What does McCain bring to the table, nothing but a lot of outrages ads? Enough of this bull, let’s talk about the important things that matter in this election. Every other word that comes out of McCain mouth is Obama. Does McCain knows anything about politic? Or is he the empty headed one.

What about these town hall meetings that McCain conduct. The people that attend just sit there like they are under a spell; what’s up with that?

The republican have been on top far too long and that is why we are in this mess. It’s time to break the barrels and tear down these walls.

Marie in California   August 1st, 2008 4:45 pm ET

I agree with Kongtooth…..Hillary would have had a 20 point lead over McCain by now and would be running away with the election, right to the White House!

As it is……McCain will continue to close the gap with empty suit, socialist, inexperienced Obama…..and then take the lead, all the way to the White House.

And Obama will have to go back to the South Side of Chicago.

I can't believe the DNC was stupid enough to hand the nomination to Obama on a silver platter! That, after Hillary repeatedly said…."Look for the candidate that is most electable!" They sure didn't listen…..they just had their own agenda, win or lose….and they WILL lose with the loser they chose!

If not Hillary, then McCain!

PUMA

BC FOR OBAMA   August 1st, 2008 4:45 pm ET

This is the America we all know and love. Stupid.

Obama 08,12

Shannon   August 1st, 2008 4:45 pm ET

I don't recognize these polls as valid. I don't know the percentage of voter groups that they're polling and honestly don't care. Perhaps the cable commentaries require polls but, I don't. The only poll that counts is on election day. For those of you reading this, please make sure you can vote. Each state has their own rules for voting and believe it; whether your democrat or repubilcan, the voting rolls will be reviewed and could affect you.

Josh from PA   August 1st, 2008 4:45 pm ET

Obama contiunes to show an elitist attitude wherever he goes. Unfortunately for him, all Americans have a great deal of pride. This equation will never work out… We don't want anyone, especially a presidential hopeful, looking down their nose at us. McCain on the other hand has taken a humble approach to his campaign and he WILL capitalize on the Democratic party's mistake.

As a registered Republican, I came into this year with the intentions of voting for a Democrat. Not one Democrat (I attended a Clinton rally and an Obama rally – both in State College, PA) has given me any sort of comfort on many seperate issues. It's like they're just trying to hit the right key. They're only trying to get elected. Puppets of MoveOn.org. To make a long argument short; they're plans are unrealistic.

It's too bad that there isn't a true stand-out candidate of any age, race, gender, or party out there somewhere…. some day…. some day….

Jason, MI   August 1st, 2008 4:44 pm ET

Hell, I want to see John McCain go off before he becomes the president. He would like nothing more than to take some reporters mike and throw it at them.

The man doesn't have a heart, and does't need to be president.

Obama 08

ArtNYC   August 1st, 2008 4:44 pm ET

Tired of people saying McCain will be a continuation of Buh. That is far from the truth as it can considering McCain is the one Senator that has always gone against Bush on lots of big issues. You guys just keep spewing the same things you are told to say….

How can someone vote for a guy that wants to tax us more, increase the size of the govt. Socialize everything, end fair markets, etc. The second coming who's so full of himself that one days he's going to fly. Also, just because he's good for France doesn't mean he's good for US. Wake up people.

anonymous   August 1st, 2008 4:43 pm ET

Go Mccain

flbill   August 1st, 2008 4:43 pm ET

Despite what all of the Obama "believers" want to believe, there are significant number of Americans (apparently 44%) that prefer John McCain. I have nothing against Senator Obama I just don't think he has the leadership experience nor do I agree with his policies. I thought that was what America stood for – the right to express your opinion and have a "different" opinion. In my humble opinion, the Obama Minions who think the world will come to an end if everyone doesn't agree with them are just flat out wrong and they do no service to their candidate.

Mallory, AK   August 1st, 2008 4:43 pm ET

McCain will need a lot of help. He's old and intolerant and doesn't have the patience to do what a president needs to do. You'll see, when he goes overseas, just like George Bush, no one will care.

Americans will wake up when he sends their boys to war. This man is a maniacal panderer who doesn't have the tolerance or the strength quite frankly to run the country.

Obama 08

Roofin Reality, Houston, Tx.   August 1st, 2008 4:42 pm ET

To all my puma friends,
no matter how the fall election turns out (and I pray Senator Obama is the winner), Senator Clinton will not be the next President.
So, if you want to shoot yourself in the foot, go right ahead. But in looking closely at some numbers, the ONLY reason Obama isn't further ahead is because Dems haven't totally jumped on board vis a vis the Kerry election. Every other demographic studied shows Obama up. The exception is Dems.
As soon as you come to your senses, Obama will win this thing and restore our dignity in the world.
Or, you can have all of what Mccain is offering. Which so far this week, is just to talk about Obama. So, if that's the case, why not just vote for Obama anyway? Think about it people.

Frank, Missouri   August 1st, 2008 4:42 pm ET

If that is true, we the American People, deserve to go down the drain. Nothing is easier than not voting for an idiot – we failed twice. Third strike and we are out !

Republicans Rock baby!!   August 1st, 2008 4:41 pm ET

Mack is back
Mack is back..Attention all NASCAR dads and security moms, Mack is back and he is the man! The country is moving towards Mack! Red White and Blue all the way with Mack as our Commander!

Joe   August 1st, 2008 4:41 pm ET

McCrank cannot even get 300 people to listen to him talk. I do not believe your poll at all. This guy cannot even find Iraq on a map. Prove the polls!! Who paid for it and what were the questions and who was polled. How about a copy of it CNN or some video of the questions being asked to provide proof of your report or are you just as irresponsible as CBS editing answers. If you cannot prove your claims
with all the resources you have then I am left to believe you are being given talking points from the pentagon just like you were with the generals on the invasion of Iraq.

Foreign Observer   August 1st, 2008 4:40 pm ET

Obama's an elitist while McCain traipses around in $500 Ferragamo loafers… you guys are unbelievable. What a farce.

Hana   August 1st, 2008 4:40 pm ET

The polls are useless at this point, and the media knows it. This is nothing more than a rating's ploy and, essentially, an effort to gain the attention of the hardcore, cult-like followers of Hillary Clinton. They claim she'd be ahead by 20 points conveniently forgetting that Hillary Clinton has extremely high negative numbers.

PUMAs should get a life; your current one is tiresome. And, the media should focus on issues not a horse race but, as mentioned, it's all about ratings. If you believe these polls, take a seat in Wolf's Situation Room.

Anonymous   August 1st, 2008 4:40 pm ET

It's time for Obama to go negative. Drop the gloves and punch the old man in the mouth.

Karen,   August 1st, 2008 4:39 pm ET

I'm still waiting to get a call from the polls. Why would you believe a poll that calls one thousand people out of hundreds of millions. Give me a break.

But, if they're right and America wants to go from a C student to a D student, go right ahead!

Stupid is as stupid does!

See you at the soup kitchen!

Mindscape   August 1st, 2008 4:39 pm ET

Finally, the cream is rising to the top. I'm glad the American public is waking up and seeing this race for what it is. Obama is the biggest political phony I've ever seen. If this country wants an experienced, intelligent, pragmatic leader to be the White House, they will vote for McCain.

McCain 2008

anonymous   August 1st, 2008 4:39 pm ET

So Guess you

Monica, Texas   August 1st, 2008 4:39 pm ET

and yea I just saw McCain in an interview and he could not remember the question and on the difficult questions he stammered through it he really had a hard time and should have second thoughts about wanting to debate Obama……He should be careful about what he ask for…Let's see how the media will play this tape I bet it will edited. It took him forever to try and answer the question…

Troy, Seattel WA   August 1st, 2008 4:38 pm ET

I'm a Hillary supporter for McCain.

indy   August 1st, 2008 4:38 pm ET

It's hard to read too much into a poll this early. If anything, it means it will be a tight race to the end – which is expected anyway.

I'm Disgusted ... Maybe God will Forgive Him   August 1st, 2008 4:38 pm ET

McCain's "The One" ad shows the disrepect that McCain has for those Democrats and Republicans of deep religious faith.

We've always known that McCain does not truly know the Lord and therefore has been uncomfortable whenever the subject of his faith comes up.

What we didn't know is that he would be the leader of a flippant group of jesters that think it is in anyway appropriate to parody biblical symbolism for politics. Sorry, John, we don't appreciate your humor and if you TRULY were a devout Christian, you'd have shown some semblance of good judgement.

Sheri   August 1st, 2008 4:38 pm ET

McCain is a very dirty, and nasty politician. He plays the DIRTY GAME

Mini-Me McSame   August 1st, 2008 4:38 pm ET

So, McSame still won't win, and if he does pack your sons' bags because they're going to Iran. McCain is a small minded intolerant man who's green with envy that Barack is getting press attention.

It's a long way to November but we will survive.

Obama 08

kevin from kc   August 1st, 2008 4:37 pm ET

Please go to pollster.com and get the real numbers state by state and you will see Obama have a comfortable lead over Mcsame

Will in Richmond, VA   August 1st, 2008 4:37 pm ET

This is simply incredible.

And another McCain ridicule ad is on the air. And people seem to be buying this!! McCain doesn't seem to be taking the process or the arguments seriously and he's gaining in the polls?!

In the words of a famous character from American cinema: "Inconceivable!!"

Maybe America deserves what it gets. We wanted "Dubbaya" so bad for eight years, and we sure got him. Why do we want McCain after everythign this country has been through?

Mike   August 1st, 2008 4:37 pm ET

Not surprising; since the reality of Obama's very socialistic policy style is coming more into the light.

Susan   August 1st, 2008 4:37 pm ET

He forgot Three Mile Island. How convenient. Hey CNN, the new sutpid ad from McLame, how come you shut it down?

sacto joe   August 1st, 2008 4:36 pm ET

Wake up, America – we've come withiin a hair's breadth of becoming the Fourth Reich under the Repuglicans!

It's time for a CHANGE!

Dem08   August 1st, 2008 4:36 pm ET

Why on most every blog today Obama supporters blame Hillary Clinton for everything???I don't get it. Are you that scared of her? Obama continues to plummet in the polls because he refuses to address the half of the democratic party that voted for Clinton. We want her as VP…without her, his unity and change message is crap and he will continue to falter. An Obama/Clinton ticket is a sure win in November.

pam Eugene OR   August 1st, 2008 4:36 pm ET

Stop with the daily polls
we all know they don"t mean anything yet!

James   August 1st, 2008 4:36 pm ET

If you vote for McCain, you're a moron. End of story.

Susan from Scotts Valley, CA   August 1st, 2008 4:36 pm ET

Like Denny, I would have supported her if she had gotten the nomination but she would not have had a 20 point lead. The Republicans hate her even more than they fear Obama. If you're saying she would have because of the Hillary voters, then shame on you.

Bush attack campaigning, Bush economics, Bush war policies, Bush snubbing your nose at the rest of the world, Bush take care of the rich and stick it to the rest of us, four more years? I can't believe we're going to let this happen. Country wake up! We won't survive.

elly   August 1st, 2008 4:36 pm ET

How sad Americans just love to wallow in their own misery!!!!

another 4years of another Bush clone and war monger in McSame not to mention his bordering on Dementia with his blunders
Dont whine when he bombs Iran and brings back the draft to send your kids and grand kids to WAR

Lynn   August 1st, 2008 4:36 pm ET

Go McCain!! Were all voting all the way for you!!! Send Obama home!!

travis, fremont ca   August 1st, 2008 4:35 pm ET

I don't understand all of McCain's personal attacks and weak over-the-top attempts are smarmy sarcasm. Why doesn't he put out ads talking about his views and politics and what he will do for our country. Instead of all the negative attacks, has he put out one ad that is about actual topics? This is really sad and I hate it!!!

Okay, everyone, vote for McCain since he's so great and Obama is this prima donna elitist. I want Obama to win and he has my vote. But this campaign is turning 2004, vote for the old man because of this or that. And in 2-3 years when things in this country are still the same as they are now (or worse), you can all have buyers remorse like many do now with Bush. Go McCain, we need more of the same from you, great!! (how's that for sarcasm, maybe I should do a commercial)

Devil In a Red Suit   August 1st, 2008 4:35 pm ET

Okay, so this ad is saying he's the Messiah? What idiots, they're really scaping the bottom of the barrel.

I don't know about you, but there's only one Messiah, and his name is Jesus.

McCain has to convince me that there's only one devil though.

sarah   August 1st, 2008 4:35 pm ET

Perhaps McCain doesn't know about the nuclear plants in France that have failed, or the Chernobyl plant. My dad worked at NRC and he was able to read all of the information in the public reading room. Did you know that all of these reports are available in the public reading room in each agency. Perhaps more Americans should read this information, instead of listening to CNN and believing what is being said.

McCain is too old to be Pres. Not only is he ignorant, he is bringing up the race card. O just said "I'm not one of the guys on the bill" – that is not a racial issue. McCain needs to get his facts straight. Oh, I remember, one of you said he forgets what he said the day before. Senility keeps rearing its ugly head.

We need someone to clean up Bush's mess, and it can't be McCain.
Obama help! It is your turn.

OBAMA 2008/2012 – It will take 8 years to clean up this mess.

norml   August 1st, 2008 4:35 pm ET

why no comments on the mccain 'the one' ad?he makes me mad!i need to vent!thank you,cnn.nothin but luv fer ya…

Jimmy   August 1st, 2008 4:35 pm ET

Also, I am extremely disappointed with CNN's coverage of this election. The only media outlets calling McCain out on his lies and gaffes are the Daily Show and Keith Olberman. In many instances, CNN is only adding fuel to the fire. Elect McCain, America and watch your country continue its steady decline.

Go McCain   August 1st, 2008 4:35 pm ET

You know I'm tired of being considered a racist because I am white and don't support Obama. Personally, I don't care if he was purple with yellow polka dots–it wouldn't matter. I don't support him because of his socialist, left-wing policies. His policies will cost me more in taxes for no extra services for myself or my family.

Vanessa   August 1st, 2008 4:35 pm ET

Because we live in the United States of Ignorance and the world knows it. What the heck is a senile Republican going to do for working people? Look at what their cowboy did for working Americans in the last eight years.

If McCain wins we should change our name:

THE UNITED STATES OF IGNORANCE

spudmctater   August 1st, 2008 4:34 pm ET

No more gutter politics, Mr. McCain. What are YOU for? Why should we vote for YOU? Do you think constantly attacking Obama will work? Apparently so… How sad, truly sad. To think I had considered voting for you. No way now.

kasiasue   August 1st, 2008 4:34 pm ET

P.S. Does anyone besides me see the forced calmness that McCain is using and predicted smile he pastes on his face during his so-called "speeches?" Underneath that calm facade is a cauldron of tantrums knowing that he can't say what he really wants. In kindergarten terms, Mr. McCain doesn't play well with others. Waaaaaaa.

Observer   August 1st, 2008 4:34 pm ET

Where I live, my wife and I take a walk of the neighborhoods surrounding us almost every evening. There are Obama bumper stickers, yard signs and posters in windows are everywhere. Not once have I seen a John McCain bumper sticker, yard sign or poster. And I didn't think we lived somewhere you would call liberal. Makes me wonder about the accuracy of the polls.

susie   August 1st, 2008 4:34 pm ET

Obama is always trying to act superior. Look at his pictures, always looking up towards the heavens. He is such a snob.

Boyd@Boston   August 1st, 2008 4:34 pm ET

To all those McCain supporters saying Obama is making empty rhetorics my question to you is, what is John McBush doing? What has he been doing the past week? All he's been doing is talking about Obama. Obama has gotten into his head. He can't go an hour without talking about Obama. I bet you he'd vote for Obama on election day and not for himself.

H. Charles   August 1st, 2008 4:34 pm ET

This is in response to the McCain campaign's new web ad:

There's a difference between humor and just plain ignorant. If thats how the McCain campaign feels that people see Obama, they should probably be more worried about gathering support than making jokes when there's only 3 months left. What happened to the issues? We've had 8 years of Bush's really bad jokes. I truly feel sorry for McCain supporters. I used to admire John McCain. He's just not the guy we all thought he was. Experience or not, McCain and Obama can do no worse than who we've had for 8 years.

Canadian black & white man for Obama.   August 1st, 2008 4:34 pm ET

when you reference the Manchurian Candidate you are talking about a military person captured and then brainwashed by the enemy….hmmmm lets see. John S. Mccain was a POW for 5 years and the Star of some 32 Vietcong Military films, signed anti- American statements…he gave them Military information after the 4th day in captivity, upon his return he left his injured wife ( who would never fit the mold of a first lady after her accident) to marry a women 18 years his JR. blond and attractive (picture of a first lady) after his tor id affair and betrayal of his first wife…oh yeah very rich, used her money to run for Senate, a lot of shady dealings, happens to have one of the highest absent records, ran unsuccessfully several times for POTUS, and now is at 72 running again in a campaign reeking of negativity, confused rhetoric, flip flops, a lot of old Bush campaign employees, and oh yes a whole lot of Big Washington LOBBYIST…5 years under the enemy, bought his way into Senate ( having NO prior political experience) failed attempts to power now BACKED BY THE CORRUPT WASHINGTON LOBBYIST AND EX BUSH CAMPAIGNERS…now all that being said, who sounds more Manchurian?

Carl Justus   August 1st, 2008 4:33 pm ET

It will be a sad day if McCain wins the presidency, he will continue and expand the Bush policies of interfering in the politics of other small countries that have oil so the oil companies can get control of the oil.
Why are we not helping Sudan, Rawanda, SIMPLE THEY DO NOT HAVE OIL.
Why haven't we stopped the violence in Somalia, SIMPLE THEY DO NOT HAVE OIL.
Why haven't didn't we send troops in Liberia, SIMPLE THEY DID NOT HAVE OIL.
This administration including McCain will not stop violence in any country that does not have oil regardless of the genocide of killing or raping or burning of villages.

Rich   August 1st, 2008 4:33 pm ET

McCrank cannot even get 300 people to listen to him talk. I do not believe your poll at all. This guy cannot even find Iraq on a map. Prove the polls!! Who paid for it and what were the questions and who was polled. How about a copy of it CNN or some video of the questions being asked to provide proof of your report or are you just as irresponsible as CBS editing answers. If you cannot prove your claims
with all the resources you have then I am left to believe you are being given talking points from the pentagon just like you were with the generals on the invasion of Iraq.

Ryan   August 1st, 2008 4:32 pm ET

Right now….somewhere in NY….there's a lady saying…"I TOLD YOU SO!!!"

Howard Dean is an idiot. Obama is UNELECTABLE!!

Think of the president as a position in your company. After all he works for the American people (you). Who do you hire?? The more experienced or the less experienced??

Easy answer. It's a shame the Obamabots haven't figured this out.

McCain '08!!! Hilary '12!!!

marcelo   August 1st, 2008 4:32 pm ET

The McCain campaign knows that Obama is not arrogant but is in fact rather humble. The audacity of the McCain campaign to do some serious video/sound clip editing to portray Obama in this light just shows me how low/deceiptful John McCain is willig to go to win the campaign. He will SAY and DO ANYTHING to win this campaign even if it means smearing Obama's character and "swifting boating" him in the process.

I'm tired of these Rovian games… Where are the issues? How come McCain can't beat him on the issues?!?!?!?!? It's because he can't. Obama was right about not rushing into a war in 2002 and about setting a tentative timetable with Iraq (which the Iraqi prime-minister agreed to). Obama raised the issue about the looming mortgage crisis in April 2007… John McCain was in denial about a crisis until March 2008!!!

Please people, let's us not let the McCain campaign pull the Bush wool over our eyes for another 8 years… I Love the USA and only want the best… as I believe Sen. Obama does as well.

justin   August 1st, 2008 4:32 pm ET

Don't worry Obama supporters. John McCain will recieve a temporary bump. This thing will stay deadlock for a while now. Manly because the only people paying attention is the political junkies. Others just see a few ads, and make judgements from there. When people really start paying attention, that's when Obama will seize on it. Let McCain have his fun. This might be the only fun he ever has. Obama will win in a blowout, Mark my words!!

Go McCain   August 1st, 2008 4:32 pm ET

People are starting to see the light about Obama. Just read today that he wants to raise the national minimum wage to 9.50 per hour. How can we afford that? Raising the wage will just resort in higher prices for everyone or possible layoffs of employees. Obama's policies just don't make sense and Americans are starting to realize that.

Jimmy   August 1st, 2008 4:32 pm ET

Frankly, I am disgusted by this country if this poll is correct. McCain has completely given up on talking about the issues. His tactics are dishonorable and beneath a man that I used to have respect for… the fact that they are working is an indictment of the ignorance of many people in this country (and no I'm not talking about race.) I also have to concur with Denny's comment. I don't get the Hillary supporters attempts to bring Obama down. We are all Democrats, people! Support your candidate.

joe   August 1st, 2008 4:31 pm ET

my hussein loosing points.i can't bear it.bring hillary on or you loose.that simple.

Debby   August 1st, 2008 4:31 pm ET

This is nothing new though. McCain is either 3 points behind or 5. I do find it hilarious that Obama with his message of change isn't clobbering the Republicans. I think the DNC made a huge mistake promoting this guy and downplaying Hillary.

jefflz   August 1st, 2008 4:30 pm ET

It is a capmaign trusism that negativity carefully staged is very effective. Karl Rove's minions slimed their way into the McCain campaign and the champions of the Big Lie and Smear are now managing McCain to keep him on track and on message. The stench that arises from the Swift Boat style attacks on Obama is all too familiar. McCain himself was a victim of this filth in 2000. The fact that he needs to rely on this type of "thuggery" is proof positive of his feebleness as a candidate.

The Obama campaign managers have to take the gloves off and give back to McCain what his Karl Rove handlers dish out. Its time to remind people about McCain's less than straight talk about he Keating Five for example. Many of the younger voters don't know anything about those sleazy dealings. How about his blithering comments about Iraq when Lieberman had to practically wipe the drool off McCain's face as Joe whispered corrections about Iraq into his ear. When the Swift Boaters went after Kerry he stood there like a deer in the headlights. Obama needs to strike back and quickly. The Rove team is counting on his stumbling in in the face of their relentless smears

Michelle   August 1st, 2008 4:29 pm ET

I can't take another 4 years of this crap! I'll move to Europe if McCain wins.

You would think after running so many times that he would get the clue to just let it go.

Joe from NC   August 1st, 2008 4:29 pm ET

Every other day the poll of polls goes 3 points in Obama's direction or 3 points in McCain's direction. Supporters of the candidate who declined say polls this early are meaningless, and supporters of the candidate who improved say something along the lines of "This increase will continue. My candidate will win by a landslide!"

Just an observation.

Justin   August 1st, 2008 4:29 pm ET

Keep it going McCain! At this rate, next month you'll be leading by 10 points. The more people hear come out of Obama's mouth, the less they want to vote for him. I love it!

Ratgurl   August 1st, 2008 4:29 pm ET

I'm surprised to read the number of comments left by paid bloggers. I guess I gave too much credit to CNN for being a place to come for intellectual stimulation with regard to current events. This place is just pandering to the bottom feeders (not ALL of the the commenters, but many of them!)

Mandeep   August 1st, 2008 4:29 pm ET

Obama uses the race card to get people to feel sorry for him. He used it in the primaries with Clinton and he's doing it again.

GO McCain!!!

A CANUCK   August 1st, 2008 4:28 pm ET

EITHER POLLS ARE USELESS OR AMERICANS ARE STUPID!!!!!!

Enlightened Voter   August 1st, 2008 4:28 pm ET

Hey Marc PDX – STOP LYING! MCcain throws his hecklers out you moron, we've all seen it so don't try to deny it. Obama answered his hecklers questions, ALL OF THEM and without anger. Please, if your gonna criticize at least be honest but your a repug and are incapable of it.
And Kongtooth – If Hillary would have been up by 20 why didn't she win???????????????????? You moron! She lost fair and square. Now go help her pay off her debt that she mismanaged and that you can't blame on Barack.

Ken Pittsburgh   August 1st, 2008 4:27 pm ET

Obama handled the hecklers in a kind hearthed matter took questions from one one young men and answer his questions get your facts straightn

terry maineiac   August 1st, 2008 4:27 pm ET

This poll means absolutly nothing repeat nothing. The only poll that matters are the individual state polls and in particular the 13 to 15 big states with the 270 plus electoral votes.

we must all know by now that the president is not elected nationally but by the states and the electors ( or the supreme court ).

any ways its still summer and people are more interested in enjoying one last vacation before the bush economic house of cards folds for good.

John   August 1st, 2008 4:27 pm ET

I am an American, and I can't believe the idiocy of the American people over politics. Look around, we're doomed if we get another war-mongering, born-again republican that hasn't a clue how to drive this country toward invention. It comes down to what people hear on TV, in church, and race and not what people believe in their own heart and minds. I'm beginning to question if these polls are just invalid data provided by Rupert Murdoch in effort to get us used to the idea of another republican presidency. I seriously don't see how it is possible, but hey you know, I've been absolutely amazed at the stupidity of this country more than once. Namely in years 2000, and 2004.

Jodi   August 1st, 2008 4:27 pm ET

These polls are flawed. Check out Pollsters or RealClearPolitics for more accurate reads. Not that polls matter – it is only August, lest we forget.

JONNA   August 1st, 2008 4:26 pm ET

Don't know what polls they're looking at?

Bob, Seattle   August 1st, 2008 4:26 pm ET

As folks continue to see that there is little to no substance behind the 'hollow-gram' that is Obama this trend will continue. Can you really close your eyes and see this man, who virtually has no experience and really has no legacy as a true 'American', as your President?

kasiasue   August 1st, 2008 4:26 pm ET

If McCain used the time spent cutting down Obama and looking for unwitty negative phrases to tack on Obama's campaign on positively improving his speaking skills and talking succinctly in an adult fashion to the voters, he may find that more valuable. I think he realizes he is losing any imagined control over his campaign and is reaching the bottom of his rope — nowadays babbling things that he will do during his term. McCain is a pitiful example of a loser in the limelight.

Paula, CA   August 1st, 2008 4:25 pm ET

Please!! I wonder who they are sampling… Are they pulling from the 24% who actually think Bush is doing a good job?! The same pool of voters that put bozo in office TWICE?! Just goes to show you that "common sense" is not that common.

My confidence level in these polls: 0, zip, zilch!!

Obama '08

John Starnes Tampa Florida   August 1st, 2008 4:25 pm ET

If those numbers are accurate, then it seems that the same uninformed crowd that gave us the travesty of the Bush/Cheney era want four more years of America being ravaged from the inside out. Mindboggling to think that ANY informed voter would put America's well-being in the hands of someone so poorly equiped in so many regards as John McCain. Problem is, once again the rest of us and the world would have to suffer for their poor judgement, or total lack thereof.

Puff   August 1st, 2008 4:24 pm ET

THE DNC HAS NO ONE TO BLAME BUT THEMSELVES. THEY ANNOITED THE MESSIAH, IT HAS TRULY GONE TO HIS HEAD, AND BY NOVEMBER THIS GUY WILL JUST BE A BAD JOKE. THE REPUBLICANS WILL STILL BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND ALL BECAUSE THE DEMS DIDN'T WANT HILLARY. BOO HOO TO THEM. WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OUGHT TO VOTE OUT ALL THESE CORRUPT POLITICIANS AND THAT INCLUDES THEIR MESSIAH.

al in memphis   August 1st, 2008 4:24 pm ET

What do the campaign advisers say to McCain– Here's what the American people want to hear. Let's just call Obama names that people identify with as negative — arrogrant, Dr. No, elitist, etc. After all, that is what they really vote on. They want take the time to did into the issue and the solutiions, which is why we don't have to spend money to developing any.

Ratgurl   August 1st, 2008 4:24 pm ET

I'm so done with polls. They're all full of shiite!

SHAWN   August 1st, 2008 4:23 pm ET

I guess next the polls will show that Obama is the true underdog and always has been.

Candy West Virginia   August 1st, 2008 4:23 pm ET

This country is so backwards and we deserve to be after voting in GWB twice and now people don't know whether they want an 'experienced' crook (mccain) in the white house or a man with promise and brilliant judgment. If we let the repugs win we deserve to be a third world country which is exactly what we are gonna be. The repugs are playing with us raising the oil prices and then lowering them nearer to the elections. And all this negativity they are throwing about us about Obama knowing good and well it just isn't true. The problem is he is a good man (Obama) and this country is afraid of electing a black man. So to all of you idiots thinking about voting in the same ol bull don't complain when you drown in it.

Aaron Fargo, ND   August 1st, 2008 4:22 pm ET

Polling for this election is a waste. They rely on methods that ensure little accuracy. The media just wants to make it look like a close race. Obama will win by a landslide at this pace. The more people know about McCain, the less they care for him. Just wait until everyone finds out why he abandoned his first wife!

Obama '08

Janice   August 1st, 2008 4:22 pm ET

Jack Waldan – At least most americans can spell Texas

And just because someone may not agree with you doesn't make them a moron. People you don't agree with could say the same about you. Its all subjective.

Charuhans   August 1st, 2008 4:22 pm ET

Borat, Ooops Barack has reached the ceiling of 40s. Now, who are these people who are going to vote for him come what may? His vote bank constitutes of anti-semitics, blacks, moslems, misogynists, drug users/dealers and the losers (blame all your failuers on someone else, and Government sounds the best). Thankfully, these groups constitute only around 40-45% of the American voting public (as obvious from the %age he is polling).

The game changer might be if the majority of the other 55-60% of the American public keeps away from the polls in November. Thats exactly what Barack and gang are hoping/planning for.

shish   August 1st, 2008 4:21 pm ET

ez y'all … McCain should have been way ahead by now come on..a new kid on the block, McCain should have destroyed him by now. What troubles me, I could care less who wins, is the attitude people have towards their own citizens..people insulting McCain and Obama, also disrespecting an old person and also the view some have that Obama is not really American, sort of like he is no there yet. It is really disgusting how low people can go.
Above all, people on the outside looking in are seeing what Americans are deep down.
It is just politics people, some of you get really wound up here, on both side of the political spectrum. At the end of the day death is the great equalizer nobody is better than anyone else. McCain, Obama, Rove will be food for maggots, we all will so please speak with reason not anger…

Nick   August 1st, 2008 4:21 pm ET

Any true Hillary supporter would support her party.

bridgette   August 1st, 2008 4:20 pm ET

If America wants the same then they will vote for McCain. And if he wins then Americans be quiet when we are at war with Iran and even more things are cut and the gas and grocieries get higher. Just shhhhhhhhh and accept what is.

E. Scott   August 1st, 2008 4:20 pm ET

I have to agree that Hilliary would be way up in the polls at this point. Barack Hussein Obama is going down every so slowly.

matt   August 1st, 2008 4:19 pm ET

Barrack Hussein Obama never has won an election and never will win an election. Slick Chicago politics may get him appointed to Senate, but lack of true substance will be his downfall. He evades every question just as he evades McCain when challenged to town hall open forum meetings. The man is all fluff and no stuff. How arrogant Barrack is to push his own agenda on offshore drilling instead of what 83% of Americans want. What happend to government by the people for the people. You elect this virus and pretty soon we will rename the country USSROA United States Socialist Republic of America. Freedom to go as far as you want to go is what America is all about.

fella from Chicago   August 1st, 2008 4:19 pm ET

Whether I agree with President Bush on his policies both home and abroard over the last eight years or not, I respect the Office of the Presidency and those who sit in it and must make decisions affecting this great country of ours almost on an hourly basis. Right or wrong this President like the ones before him whether Republican or Democrat have made decisions that would cause most individual's to crack. John McCain is an older individual than I would like see running for the Office of the Presidency, but I feel the same allegience toward him as I do toward President Bush (both) or Clinton, Party doesn't matter, the individual does. I don't have that same warm feeling toward Senator Obama. I just can't perceive him as the President. In my heart I know he's not good for this country.

Lourdes   August 1st, 2008 4:19 pm ET

I think it's pretty sad that Obama isn't coming out and attacking McCain just as hard because he thinks the American people deserve better. These polls show that maybe we really do deserve what befalls us…. a McCain presidency will be just as if not more disastrous as the Bush presidency was, but half the country was foolish enough to reelect him in 2004 anyway. I'm tired ignorance deciding elections.

OBAMA 08!!!!!

Just look up McCain and contributions from oil companies. McCain and policy reversals. McCain and NOT SUPPORTING THE GI BILL!!!!! Please, America. Don't vote out of defensiveness.

mike   August 1st, 2008 4:19 pm ET

we reap what we sow, america deserves john mccain

anonymous   August 1st, 2008 4:18 pm ET

Hey wake up American people don't you know that every election we the people seem to be side tracked by all the gossiping talk that is never true. Don't you hear gossip about everyone. I bet there is gossip on you and it is not even true. So why go on, believing what all the negative of people that comes out. Can't you be an individual and make your own minds up. Don't believe all the gossip. Vote for the strongest of the two. Haven't you heard that only the strong survive? Well wake up H E L L O!!! Vote for McCain as he tells it like it is. Guess no child likes to hear the truth. This country needs a strong leader. Do Not forget that President Bush has had to put up with a group of democrats that will not let him run the office like he wants as they always vote against him. Well just for the record when a democrat get in maybe we will have all republicans telling him what to do SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Obama- Next Stop.. White House   August 1st, 2008 4:18 pm ET

It means NOTHING!! They have to keep the ratings up because they no people are tuning in everyday….. If it was inevidable folks wouldnt be as engaged. Don't Worry, McCain is going down like Frazier!!!

To all you Haters….

OBAMA 08

OFFWALLST WALL ST. NY   August 1st, 2008 4:18 pm ET

THE HONEYMOON IS OVER !!!

DID YOU THINK CONSERVATIVE AMERICA WAS GOING TO STAY QUIET FOR MUCH LONGER ….AND LET THIS SOCIALIST DICTATE HIS CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN BS.!!!

BY LABOR DAY AND OCTOBER…….MCAIN WILL BE IN THE LEAD AND NEVER GIVE IT UP…..

OBAMA LANDSLIDE!! YEA RIGHT!!!……..REMEMBER 1980…1984…19888…..

Enlightened Voter   August 1st, 2008 4:18 pm ET

I just watched mccain on cnn live. What a spectacle. First he couldn't remember the reporters' questions who just finished asking it and then he out and out lied about supporting the MLK holiday which we all know he voted against. This man is a sham and anyone who votes for this deserves the america they get.

Janice   August 1st, 2008 4:18 pm ET

Jasmine – get over the race thing -

Maurice   August 1st, 2008 4:17 pm ET

This is my prediction.
Come November Barack Obama will become the next President Of The United States.
Yes it is going to be a hard fought race (Obama knows this) and he is up to the challenge.
In the end the goal will be achieve.

I know we are very stupid at times (we gave Bush two terms) but sooner or later a somber mood before the election will come over us and we will make the right choice to elect the right man for the job (Barack Obama).

Mark my words

Kevin   August 1st, 2008 4:17 pm ET

The game has not started. Mccain is using up all his weapons. After that he will have nothing left and Obama will surely carry the day.

Charles   August 1st, 2008 4:17 pm ET

The polls get closer at the end of every week. On Monday Obama has a big lead and by Friday the lead has shrunk. Are our attention spans so short that we don't see the pattern and have to pull our hair out every weekend?

Sad Old Grandpa   August 1st, 2008 4:17 pm ET

Wow… if gramps is getting this desperate before the conventions have even happened just wait until the debates start. He's going to look like a total fool.

Mike   August 1st, 2008 4:16 pm ET

Hot-headed McCain (who called his wife a c – - t and a trollop, picked a foreign countryman up by the collar during sensitive negotiations, hurled the F-bomb on repeat occasions with his Congressional colleagues, and thought it funny to sing "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran") has a temperament less suited to bring peace in the world. Big Oil and Big Pharmacy (well, except for female birth control) are behind him, which means sticking it to all the rest of us financially for years to come. I believe Obama brings a fresh new approach, and will be ore able to ring more disparate factions within and outside the US together to forge agreements on peace, economy, jobs, sources of energy, environment, health, and education.

Frank   August 1st, 2008 4:16 pm ET

If the intent of posting viewer participation is to gauge support for a point of position, then why does it seem everytime opposition is expressed, comments are halted when Obama comments are not favorable? My comments have never been vulgar or offensive, except
maybe, to Barack Obama and his followers. And I'm a Democrat except
for this time around!

David Orbach, New York, NY   August 1st, 2008 4:16 pm ET

How is it that Obama, who is a brilliant and charismatic speaker, comes under criticism for reading scripted speeches, while the critics, who are undoubtedly Republicans, think nothing of the fact that our commander-in-chief for the past eight years is incapable of speaking coherently, clearly and convincingly when reading similarly scripted speeches. Bring on the debates, and watch a young, vibrant thinker wipe the floor with a formerly "straight talking" sell out.

Jon, Pittsburgh, PA   August 1st, 2008 4:15 pm ET

Obama's race has nothing to do with why some Democrats are not very supportive. He has no experience governing and very little legislating. This is no time for a strong rhetorical president.

Greg, San Francisco, CA   August 1st, 2008 4:15 pm ET

Hilary also went negative and increased her poll numbers – and lost the nomination.

azu   August 1st, 2008 4:15 pm ET

McCain is just doing what aching old folks like him do – WHINE!!!

Debra   August 1st, 2008 4:15 pm ET

Obama could still fix this if he picked Hillary as VP.

Greg Pottstown, Pa.   August 1st, 2008 4:14 pm ET

John, Catholic August 1st, 2008 12:03 pm ET

You people need to read more.

(Paraphrased) Adam Smith on the Wealth of Nations, Book 5, Chapter 2:

"The most fundamental requirement of any economy is infrastracture. By means of establishing infrastructure one may not only employee the citizenry, but one also improves the economic efficency of the state. As such infrastructure is an investment that not only pays the people for the work they do but benefits the state by facilitating economic growth."

Obama's plan is to get the people to build infrastructure. Which has not been touched since the time of the New Deal about fifty years ago. That will facilitate private industry thus creating new jobs immediately and in the long run.

sounds good but you forgot to tell about the fact that the new deal was an utter failure and plunged the US even deeper into the great depression. That is the difference between paper economics and real economics. like Markism, it looks good on paper but in reality it left most of the former USSR boiling dirt to feed to kids so they would not starve

Bendo   August 1st, 2008 4:14 pm ET

I think Obama needs an attack dog to go after the repugs, who has the stomach for this: HRC! I cant believe I'm typing this!

LindaFerrel   August 1st, 2008 4:14 pm ET

You people are sick bleeting sheep. It only took one McCain ad to start this 'OBama is an empty celebrity' tirade. How many of you made it to Harvard Law school and the Senate? How empty is that? In what way does that compare to an airheard millionairess?

McCain's most notable achievements are crashing his plane, not dying in a prison camp, returning home to cheat on his disabled wife, and helping his new wife evade criminal narcotics charges. Bravo Senator! Bravo!

BRIAN   August 1st, 2008 4:14 pm ET

You have to love it…if 8 years of dumb-downed politics was not enough, people might rather choose the same dumb-down politician by electing McCain. But I guess if 52 million people could vote for Bush, in 2004, after his disasturous first four years it only makes sense that people would vote for McCain.
I guess people would prefer the same old-crap. I hear all the time in the State of Florida it's the Democrats fault the state and Jacksonville the city are doing so bad financially and in a lot of other areas as well, did I miss something, Republicans have been in charge of everything for as long as I can remember in the State of Florida, but it's dems fault? Some people are too afraid to open their eyes, look at facts, see reality and make a conscious, intelligent decisions.

RML   August 1st, 2008 4:14 pm ET

I wonder if McCain supporters are familiar with Einstein's theory on Insanity. You know, the idea that we keep doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result… Obviously two Bush terms weren't enough so let's try it again… HELLO!!!!!

62 year old white woman   August 1st, 2008 4:14 pm ET

To all you Hillary supporters – If you think that Hillary's baggage would not be brought out in full force by the Republicans, you are living in a bitter, whining dream world! THEY WOULD BE HAVING A FIELD DAY WITH ALL HER NEGATIVES, INCLUDING BILL!!!!

Gramma Faye /Idaho   August 1st, 2008 4:13 pm ET

I do not trust Obama with our National Security and he and Nancy Pelosi and Reid are to close in thinking. I want to see someone that will work for our National Security. Lots of things I don't like about McCain. BUT with those 3 in power our country does NOT stand a chance be it Security or economy or supporting the military or oil independence or getting out from under being dependent on other countries. . I do not want to loose the USA as I have known it for 69 yrs. So this is back to figuring out the lesser of 2 evils. Hopefully in 4 yrs we will have someone with out the visions of self importance and being the saviour of the world and the cocky attitude. I have had candidates scare me before but the three worst were both Bush's and Obama.
Even way more so than Nixon and Carter. May god help the good ol' USA.

Harvey in Va   August 1st, 2008 4:13 pm ET

and this is just the beginning….DNC BIG MISTAKE with Obama and an even BIGGER MISTAKE not having her on the ticket..

McCain 08

PUMA

CM   August 1st, 2008 4:13 pm ET

I like that some 'informed' posters on here say that the older voters are weighing in and seeing the light. Are these the same older voters who voted for Bush twice but can "see' that Barack is a phony?

Why do Obama's attackers here keep saying he's all style and no substance when anyone (read the news) who has read his plans can see there is a lot of merit to it. You guys need to look at the issues rather than believe all the scare tactics coming from the GOP.

But then again, you probably won't. Just like 4 years ago you decided to stay the course and look where we are now.

This goes for the voters against Obama as well. Where are you planning to live once McCain keeps draining our economy to support his wars.

LYNETTE IN CA   August 1st, 2008 4:12 pm ET

It's temporary!

Mark n Nebraska   August 1st, 2008 4:11 pm ET

Obama's campaign slogan of Change we can believe in is just that. He changes his mind and flip flops on more issues than Bill Clinton ever dreamed of. American's are waking up to this realization. The closer we get till election day, the more the polls will swing to McCain. It's not the McCain is that much better than flip flopper, but in a time of war, people don't want a leader who thinks he knows more than the experts in the military, and someone who doesn't change his position as often as the sun coming up everyday. That's why we see the polls shifting and moving in McCains favor.

Paul   August 1st, 2008 4:11 pm ET

Fasten your seat belts Obamatrons. This isn't going to be the easy landing you thought. PUMAs for McCain!!!! or anyone but BO!

trevor   August 1st, 2008 4:11 pm ET

Your 15 minutes of fame are coming to an end, Barrack Hussein Obama….you were right about one thing: you're overexposed and have nothing to offer.

Go, McCain 08!!

Jeanine G   August 1st, 2008 4:11 pm ET

McCain is not the man I thought he was.

I had, at one time, considered voting for him. But he is the same old dirty politics & empty suit the rest of the GOP is. They'll favor the wealthy, promise the moon & in 4 yrs we'll be further behind in trying to wean ourselves off of oil & paying $7.00 a gallon. He will toe the party line, he will continue to declare the economy's woe's to imaginary, & he will be sabre rattling to distract us average joes into believing that fighting the growing definition of "terrorists" is more important then families losing their homes and companies moving overseas.

While McCain tries to lie his way into the White House, I won't be fooled. I want Change. I want OBAMA!

Sane John   August 1st, 2008 4:10 pm ET

Um…

Thursday of last week, Obama was at 44% and McCain was at 41%.

No real change!

The only difference is that the number of undecided is steadily shrinking.

lil   August 1st, 2008 4:10 pm ET

Now I know why mccains camp accused Sen Obama of using the race card.
It was because he is using shouting black people in a political ad and
with religious over tones and and spiritual music playing in the back
ground saying he is the one.

mccain is race baiting and if you dont believe me go to the website.
I knew something was up yesterday when he accused Obama of
playing the race card.
To mccain and his campaign black people are to be use as cards in
a poker game. Thats all the race card mean to them they have never
been discriminated against so they dont under stand what using the
race card mean.
Pay attention people and watch the video.
The people on MSNBC thought it was funny, but I sure didnt.

Suzanne   August 1st, 2008 4:10 pm ET

McCain is not presidential. He has a violent temper and loves war. Thus his singing bomb, bomb, bomb Iran to the tune of Barbara Ann. He also lacks sound judgment…..what he does not want to get out is his attack on Chelsea Clinton 10 years ago saying her father was Janet Reno. This was a supposed joke he told to a large gathering of Republican. He lacks sound judgment and is a war monger.

Rick FL   August 1st, 2008 4:10 pm ET

Please keep these polls in perspective. Who are they polling predominantly in the middle of the day with landlines? Senior citizens. If Obama is doing ok with them, he should be fine, considering many of his supporters only have cell phones, which are not included in these calls.

The polls also do not include the large number of new registers, which favored Democrats in the primary. Lastly, third party candidates are generally excluded in these polls, unjustly so. It keeps the media from suggesting a tight race, since it has produced double-digit leads for Obama. Stay positive & VOTE.
Obama '08

Terri in Fl   August 1st, 2008 4:10 pm ET

If McCain were being questioned by the media the same way Obama was, I'm not so sure the polls would be looking like this. I've not once seen one of the anchors grill McCain the way Tom Brokaw grilled Obama. T

I wish the media had the nerve to find out what McCain's stand is on Bush's doctrine of pre-emption. I'd also like to know what solutions (other than military) does McCain have for closing the deal in Iraq (he'd need to understand why the Sunni's and Shia don't get along to figure out the political solution, but he can't even tell them apart!). I'd also like to know how McCain intends to deal with Iran – or was he serious about bombing them. In addition, I'd like to know how he plans on supporting the Israeli/Palestinian peace process.

McCain is never held accountable for his views on any of these things. But if it were Obama, the media would be all over him. If McCain wins this thing, I hope CNN et. al. are prepared to send their loved ones off to Iran (yes I said Iran) to fight McCain's little pre-emptive war!

xddy4u   August 1st, 2008 4:10 pm ET

The news media has kept us riveted. Between the primaries and the conventions is lull time. To keep the audience and their JOBS, they cover and make a mountain out of a mole hill to keep us frustrated. They don't want us calm. They want us frustrated to the highest degree, and they are doing it. We all by now should know that Obama is stomping McCain. That's why he is in the panic mode. McCain would have a calmer demeaner if the polls are as close as they make out. People common sense should kick in sometime.

Debra   August 1st, 2008 4:09 pm ET

Obama is pulling the race card because public opinion in the US now is against racism. By him continually bringing up that he is an underdog because of his race, he is trying to make people think that somehow he is being discriminated against if someone doesn't vote for him or if he loses. That is not true. He is just trying to make his race work to his advantage.

Marie   August 1st, 2008 4:09 pm ET

The bottom line is if Obama does not win this election, it will be solely for the color of his skin. And that's SAD America! Because we all know that if we would have wanted McCain in the White House, he would have been there years ago.

cedric   August 1st, 2008 4:09 pm ET

I love these polls man! Even though I am an Obama supporter and he will have my vote, i do believe he needs a good close election to make him earn that spot in the white house. The American people are tired of Bush, but that doesn't mean that a democrat is just gonna breeze through the election.

Rob - WA   August 1st, 2008 4:09 pm ET

PUMA folks seem to forget that Hillary WILL play a critical role in an Obama administration byt she WON'T get the same from McSame. Sad. They also forget that turnabout is fair play. Your sad sap attitude and attempt to create a democratic loss will slap your face come the next go around should Hillary run again. Don't you forget that.

nancy   August 1st, 2008 4:09 pm ET

Right. When do I get polled?
Didn't this same baloney happen in the last election when we all though (according to Zogby) that John Kerry was in the lead – and VIOLA! We are stuck with 4 more years of Bush.
Don't believe everything you hear ~ the repubs are sneaky, and not to be trusted.

Uncle Sam   August 1st, 2008 4:09 pm ET

You guys must think we are not educated. On Monday, Obama's lead widens and by the end og the week, it narrows. Doesn't mean a thing!!! Next subject!!!

Lynn   August 1st, 2008 4:09 pm ET

Keep spouting your gutter talk Obama groupies. The truth is your as Obama supporters are running a much worse dirty campaign and saying much worse things then McCain ever has.

Tennisguypitt   August 1st, 2008 4:09 pm ET

Oops, typo!

"We" still have a little over 3 months.

Mike   August 1st, 2008 4:08 pm ET

I don't get it. I have yet to see a single sign, bumper sticker or button for McCreepy yet he is this close in the polls? It's amazing what financial influence can do. McCreepy should be thanking his lucky stars that America is full of crooked corporations willing to sell their own grandma for a buck. Yall need to enlighten yourselves. If you wish to experience some truth, research zeitgeist the movie. If you only watch one movie in your life, this should be the one.

James   August 1st, 2008 4:08 pm ET

Why haven't I ever been polled?

I don't believe these polls at all. They mean Nothing !

name callers   August 1st, 2008 4:08 pm ET

"Rock star" "Egomaniac" Blah blah. Is that all you got? Its so tired.

I dont care about these buzzwords, as long as he can run the freggin country. Older people who vote for McCain will be dead long before his policies ruin this country more so then Bush's. Im young, a nd I want to be able to LIVE in my country, not just survive.

Tennisguypitt   August 1st, 2008 4:08 pm ET

Well still have a little over 3 months left. It's too soon to start worrying.

Obama '08

David Orbach, New York, NY   August 1st, 2008 4:08 pm ET

If we are dumb enough to elect him, we get what we deserve.

Listen Up...   August 1st, 2008 4:08 pm ET

I don't buy it. I've never been polled nor has anyone I know and we are definitley NOT voting for McCain!!!

Ron democrat turned independent   August 1st, 2008 4:08 pm ET

obama tells you what we need to do and mccain tells you how he will get it done. obama's all show, mccain is all go.if it's time for change will somebody please help him with his rhetoric. we had over a year of my daddy left home when i was two.now we are going to have to listen to, i have a funny name, i don't look like those other presidents. what does that mean you don't look like those other presidents on the five dollar bills. i thought the elections were in nov. presuming a lot aren't you.

James   August 1st, 2008 4:07 pm ET

this country will not elect a black man.

we have not evolved to that point yet.

sad but true. either way obama has made it less difficult for the first black president.

Call it injecting race, call it race baiting, call it whatever. I am a very successful black man and I know the perceptions i had to fight to get there and that i keep fighting to stay there.

sorry folks it is what it is. and its not like i am one of those who hang out at trinity either. most of my very good buddies are as white as it gets. . .

that is the america we live in.

good news is that it is changing and this year a tremendous leap forward was taken. and that as cheesy as it sounds, keeps hope alive.

William   August 1st, 2008 4:07 pm ET

I'd like to see a poll of cell phone users. The polls are not accurate. McCain negative attacks are despicable and if people buy his lies, they will all be kicking themselves in a year…..

California Voter   August 1st, 2008 4:07 pm ET

If these polls mean anything, I think the pattern is clear. Obama is unable to break that 50% level over McCain. What's more I think as people continue to listen to Obama they are finding that he really does not have the substance (experience), character and judgment they would like to have in a President.

Another grumpy old white woman for Obama   August 1st, 2008 4:07 pm ET

These polls are junk. Dont believe them. How many of you have been polled?
I am not buying this crap. The fix is in. Pollsters are all Repugs polling other repugs. I am home all day every day. Registered Dem.
contribute to Party. Nobody wants my opinion. They just ask to speak to the male voter.
Bah Humbug!

Latinos for Obama   August 1st, 2008 4:07 pm ET

This doesn't surprise me since Bush was voted in twice (once really). It goes to show how ignorant some Americans are. But wait and see how they will complain IF McCain wins.

I for one never voted for Bush and no matter what I will vote for Obama. This way my concience will be at ease.

Frank, San Francisco   August 1st, 2008 4:07 pm ET

Now can we all admit that he needs Hillary Clinton as his VP candidate…Frank

anonymous   August 1st, 2008 4:06 pm ET

Good! I hope he keeps gaining! The trip across Europe and
the race card comment–unbelievable. And still we don't hear
a specific to be had by Obama, yet his adoring fans blindly
follow.
Go McCain.

Alisa--GA   August 1st, 2008 4:06 pm ET

Hillary got slammed in the primary. So quit whining.. I am so over this.

Weepy   August 1st, 2008 4:06 pm ET

I left a comment . . .once . . . twice . . . many times, but you continue to post the comments from the same people ALL THE TIME!

Matt, Minneapolis, MN   August 1st, 2008 4:05 pm ET

Wow Henry we have nuclear powered Aircraft! holy crap. Oh did those incidents involving nuclear power ships and such mean that they struck another ship? Congratulations you've shown how completely ignorant you are on the subject of Nuclear Power.

Like I said in a previous post that got nixed b/c it criticized obama:Yes you can Hope for change, but it does absolutely nothing to help your campaign if you don't show why you're a better canidate. Everyone get ready for whiplash when McCain wins…because there will be a lot of people out there wondering which beach they had their heads stuck in while their canidate lost.

Change without substance is status quo….No to O.

Irma in North Carolina   August 1st, 2008 4:05 pm ET

How can all these people that say they are going to vote for Mccain not see that this will bring four more years of Bush. I think the attack ads that Mccain has about Obama are just pathectic. Why dont he make an add that talks about the issues that concern the amercian people here at home. Mccain will see in the end these are going to backfire on him and he sure does deserve it.

Noah   August 1st, 2008 4:05 pm ET

Put Hillary Clinton on the ticket and watch Obama's numbers shoot up. No Clinton, no vote for many democrats…sad, but true.

Gary of El Centro, Ca   August 1st, 2008 4:05 pm ET

As long as negative attack ads keep working, whoever is behind will keep trotting them out there. I think McCains gutter tactics, although closing the gap at the moment, will come back to bite him by election day. And these polls just don't reach a lot of people who will be voting in November.

Bob Texas   August 1st, 2008 4:05 pm ET

The art of mud slinging and character mashing is a proven method of GOP success. It appears to be working again!

Tired of needless data   August 1st, 2008 4:04 pm ET

Didnt the news use to report on news, and not speculation?

Im so sick of polls.

Just wait till the debates, after they have accepted their party's nominations.

Obama is gonna debate the floor with him.

D.C.Mataya   August 1st, 2008 4:04 pm ET

Obama has the qualities to be a great president. His differences are the problem.

His obstacle is some American people- who do not think they are racist- vote for people who look/act like them! They did that with Bush and look what we got. It is not surprising, they believed in an image that didn't exist. McCain as an honorable man- no longer exists.

People who continue to claim he is Muslim- is a cover up for being racist. They won't change, they just aren't truthful.

The more Obama is exposed to the Country, the more many will see his outstanding qualities.

Scott L   August 1st, 2008 4:04 pm ET

@Denny

"if you like the way things are going in America today, and are pleased with the way government works in Washington, then go ahead and vote for McCain."

What are you missing dude? DEMOCRATS HAVE OWNED the House and Senate for the last 2 years and look at how gasoline has skyrockted under their leadership. You want to continue the Democrats in control? That is ridiculous…

Debra   August 1st, 2008 4:04 pm ET

Jasmine- you couldn't be more wrong. Obama wouln't have gotten this far if he had been white. Their were plenty of experienced white guys to choose from and they all lost out early on. John Edwards is a prime example. Clinton was a strong contender but couldn't compete when 95% of blacks were voting for Obama because he was black. If Obama was not black he never would have gotten 95% of the black vote. Clinton would have gotten most of it due to her and her husbands work in the black communities and during Katrina. Wake up and get the facts straight.

LETS BE HONEST   August 1st, 2008 4:04 pm ET

EVEN WITH ALL THE MONEY OBAMA HAS RAISED

AND SPENT ON TV ADS AND OVER 900 STAFF MEMBERS

AND HE IS VIRTUALLY TIED WITH MCCAIN

SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE

MY CHOICE WAS HILLARY BUT NOW GOING TO MCCAIN

WE ARE THE SILENT MAJORITY FOLKS…

I KNOW THIS IS THE OBAMA NETWORK SO FORGIVE ME

Anthony   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

No matter who goes ahead in the polls the main stream media will try to make this race appear close so we will keep blogging and keep tuning in to watch this dog and pony show. As long as Barack talks about issues he will continue to expand his lead, but if he gets caught up in this back and forth his poll numbers will go down.

Bill   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

How can Obama win? He can't possibly get better press than he has over the last month. Meanwhile the Bush era that McCain will extend continues to go down the crapper, and on the campaign trail all McCain is doing rumblin' stumblin' bumblin'. And he's gaining. On Nov. 1 he'll have a 10-point lead and an accident in his pants.

DC, SD   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

YIKES! Senator Obama needs to call Hillary immediately.

Joe in NJ   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

Maybe it's because people are slowly being turned off by Barack "Robin Hood" Obama. I still don't know who I'm voting for but I'm liking Obama less and less.

And here we go again with: "Who were these people that they polled?" "They didn't call me." "They only call people with landlines and all the young people only have cell phones." Blah, blah, blah.

Carol - Litchfield CT   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

New Hartford CT

"rock stars" come and go but real people have staying power and are remembered for the work they do.

Diana Ewing NJ   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

I do not understand what people see in McCain. This is not the man he presented himself to be in 2000. His thoughts don't go together, his campaign consists of lies, complaints about Obama, insulting him.
I watch and listen to McCain who must read what he wants to say. His says a few sentence ends with a put down or lie about Obama then smiles at the camera and does it over and over.
Gas tax.. break, he must thing we are all stupid…. off shore drilling that will change nothing for years but endanger our waters and food supplies…
I don't make over quarter million, so his threats of Obama raises taxes does nothing to me..

Putting Obama with 2 young blondes who have continued to mess up… that is not a race card…
He was a soldier, how could he have let the soldiers go over to Iraq without equippement… and protection

yeahRight!   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

To Denny – True comment about PUMAs (unfortunately). They aren't real Democrats. They are a just a starry-eyed Hillary fan club. They have no interest in the future of this nation. And think by voting for McCain they are getting even with Obama. Ridiculous. And insane.

easy rider   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

I feel really, really sorry for this country should this Republican get elected into office. The same people who put Bush into office will vote McCain into office. I suppose they just don't know any better…or want to know any better.

The US is pretty much the laughingstock of the world due to the mess that this past presidency has gotten us into.

I wonder if those that voted for Bush can be proud of what they have put into the White House?

Vote McCain, More of the Same.

BR   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

You mean, the Chosen One isn't annointed. Maybe people are waking up from the kool-aid induced dream. Not since Hitler has an entire segment of the population been as brainwashed as what I have seen with the liberal left.

Independent-woman-4-Obama   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

Well, polls have been wrong and can be wrong. There are a lot of people who are newly registered and do not own phone with land-lines so they are not polled.

TO ALL THE OBAMA HATERS:

The BUSH/CHENEY LEGACY………. $10 TRILLION IN DEBT OWED TO CHINA……THE SAUDIS AND DUBAI TO NAME A FEW!

A DEFICIT OF $490 BILLION FOR 2009……. NOT ADDING THE $80 BILLION FOR IRAQ!

BUSH/CHENEY SPENDING $1.38 BILLION A DAY IN IRAQ………A WAR THAT WAS STARTED ON ……LIES! WHILE MILLIONS OF HARD-WORKING AMERICANS GO BANKRUPT BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT PAY THEIR MEDICAL BILLS!

AND……..MCCAIN…..THE PROLIFE CANDIDATE'S LITTLE SONG ABOUT HIS FOREIGN POLICY…. "BOMB…………BOMB…………BOMB IRAN!"

HOW ABOUT THE DRILLING OFF SHORE????? THE GOP LYING AGAIN MAKING POOR AMERICANS THINK THAT IF THEY VOTE FOR MCCAIN OIL WILL BE $2 A GALLON!

NOPE…………. WE WONT SEE THAT OIL FOR ABOUT 10YEARS! AND EXPERTS AGREE THAT AT MOST WE WILL HAVE ABOUT 16 MONTHS WORTH OF OIL!

BUT PEOPLE WILL BE FOOLED AGAIN AND AGAIN! THERE IS AN OLD SAYING "FOOL ME ONCE SHAME ON YOU, FOOL ME TWICE SHAME ON ME"

I VOTED FOR BUSH/CHENEY IN 2000……….. THEIR PRESIDENCY HAS BEEN A COMPLETE FAILURE!

ARE YOU REALLY BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE 8YEARS AGO?

norom   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

Unbelieveable. The stupidity of the American people never ceases to amaze me. This country has been mortgaged to the Chinese to pay for two wars that no one can even define victory in. Energy prices are at all time high levels, while the oil companies roll in the record profits. Unemployment at a 4 year high. Foreclosures at an all time high. US auto manufacters losing billions. Our constitution being shredded. Members of this administration at all levels involved in (at best) shady activities. The gap between the haves and have nots wider than ever. The number of Americans without health care continuing to increase. Our standing in the world continuing to decline,and the list goes on and on
AND PEOPLE WANT MORE OF THE SAME???? The definition of stupidity- doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

Angelo   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

Seen this bad movie before, if you complained about the last 8 tiring years then you will get a repeat encore with McCain for the upcoming 4 – 8 years.

If you vote for McCain, please DO NOT COMPLAIN on your way out of the theatre.

YOU HAD BEEN WARNED THAT THIS IS A SEQUAL of BUSH!!

TESAP; SAVANNAH, GA   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

MCCAIN'S UP.. OBAMA'S DOWN… OBAMA'S UP… MCCAIN'S DOWN… DAY 1…DAY2…DAY3…………………..

HOW MANY MORE DAYS OF THIS???

I WASN'T POLLED.

BARACK THE VOTE PEOPLE……………… :)

chuck   August 1st, 2008 4:03 pm ET

Obama will go down as one of the biggest jokes in political history.
What an incompetent phoney.

Ed from PA   August 1st, 2008 4:02 pm ET

Polls are irrelevant. 88% of Americans know that!

curious why my first attempt at this was erased…

Scott L   August 1st, 2008 4:02 pm ET

Voters are going to PUNISH THE DEMOCRAT MAJORITY SENATE AND CONGRESS IN NOVEMBER.

When will you people wake up and realize that DEMOCRATS have OWNED the senate and house for the last 2 years and they have done NOTHING! I voted for Kerry in the last election but am tired of Pelosi and her people making empty promises (like Obama) about solving energy problems.

Republicans at least have a plan. Environmentalists may not like it, but they have a serious, short term (5-10 year) plan.

Democrats as always have nothing. McCain is going to get things back to the middle where they belong…not right winger like Bush and not radical liberal like Obama.

Jon   August 1st, 2008 4:02 pm ET

McCain chooses to be a Republican, a member of the party that has savaged the United States out of greed and fundamentalist bullying. They are wretches.

To Danny   August 1st, 2008 4:02 pm ET

Yes Danny:
I think America needs anothe Scalia… America Deserves one

Frank   August 1st, 2008 4:02 pm ET

Perhaps the American people are finally waking up! Geraldine Ferrera
was correct with her statements in regard to Obama's entry to the Democratic primaries. As a voter, I want a president with government
experience, other than neighborhood organizer and speech maker. Obama is a figure of media and social phenom. The country needs a
figure of substance with experience, and not a creation built by Ophra.

Agnes   August 1st, 2008 4:02 pm ET

Hope, I have hope just not the audacity to blindly hope. We need more than words; we need someone who knows how to do the work. What work has Sen. Obama done? Sen. Clinton has 30 plus years of real civil rights leadership, actual gains that has allowed the disadvantaged to have a voice and that has allowed for this very discussion of Sen. Obama’s candidacy. What has Sen. Obama done for America? Local community outreach and state senatorial voting record of present are not enough to say he is experienced. And as the chairman of the Subcommittee on European Affairs with jurisdiction over NATO’s operations, he didn’t call a meeting in two years, two years! Is this how we can expect him to execute his office? It is the Executive branch not the legislative branch I’m concerned with- as the President is the top executor of the country.

Change, what change and by whom? I want change, truly I do, but how will that change come and by which path? Since Sen. Obama was instilled as the DNC’s puppet over the people’s choice, can anyone tell me what the change will be? (Say what you must but Tammany Hall is live and well in Chicago and in the DNC; it’s been lurking, waiting to raise it’s ugly head since FDR.) Is this an example of the type of administration we could expect from Sen. Obama? Strong arm tactics. What a glorious way to capture the nomination. It's not about the journey but about the end results…. RIGHT? Will this be our legacy to the future?

mike   August 1st, 2008 4:02 pm ET

Enough with the daily polls!!

Shiloh Wa   August 1st, 2008 4:02 pm ET

Jews and Christians should be appalled that McShame is using the image of Moses to attack Obama! This is sacreligious. Using Moses for political purposes and to judge a fellow canidate is so low I hope both the Christian and Jewish community protest this. First it is a video comparing him to Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton , now (on U-Tube) to Moses. Does this also mean Mc Shame is comparing Moses to Spears and Hilton? Blasfimous! Low! Desparate!

Justmyopinion2008   August 1st, 2008 4:01 pm ET

Poll of Polls does not reflect the reality! There many voters that are not cover by these pols but if it makes "Songbird" McCain and his supporters happy, fair enough. Come November you will recieve your live's shock!

CW4Barak   August 1st, 2008 4:01 pm ET

Well all I can say is, if America votes for John McCain (Bush/Cheney/Rove puppet) then we deserve higher prices at the pumps, all our jobs being shipped overseas, not being able to afford food, clothing or other expenses, no health care, not being able to attend or send our kids to college and watch the rich getting richer while we are living like 3rd world citizens (who in some cases are living much better than a lot of Americans), while having the Rupublicans telling us we are just whiners and our sufferings are all in our heads…..we deserve it all…..but any country who voted for Bush twice will vote for a McCain…..so I would not be surprised if they somehow con the American people again for a third time and win the election. But if they think Obama and his family will suffer or anyone of the Democrats in congress they can think again…..Obama and his wife can make more money not being a President than being a President. So it is all up to the American people, who somehow has never moved in the same direction as the rest of the world, but wonder why the world is not following! MAY GOD HELP US ALL!

Frank   August 1st, 2008 4:01 pm ET

DNC made a fatal mistake and now they and rest of us democrats have to pay for it! If you wanted a black President, that is wonderful, but at least bring someone that has experience and is not an egomaniac and an empty suit. We have a lot of intelligent, experienced black politicians that would have been fantastic, but we had to have Nobama with his hateful wife Michelle!!! Great job DNC!!!

kelly WI   August 1st, 2008 4:01 pm ET

And just who writes the bills and spends the money? Couldn't just happen to be congress job could it.?
You can thank your dem congress for that. I see nancy won't let the vote come up on energy. Went on vacation. She knows her anti-drilling stance would fail. She's busy playing Mother Nature saving the planet role along with Obamas Father of the World savior role.
McCain 08

bonna   August 1st, 2008 4:01 pm ET

Carl Rove, Canney, Bush and Bush daddy, will do anything to elect someone that shares their veiws. BUT GUESS WHAT BUSH WILL NOT BECOME THE NEXT BILLIONARE OF THE OIL CHAIN FAMILY!!!
NOOOOO MORE OF THIS MONEY HUNGRY PEOPLE.

Edwin   August 1st, 2008 4:00 pm ET

I love how Sen. Obama's supporters are so high on their own message that they can't understand why people think he's smug or don't support him.

For those of you who know your mythology, Sen. Obama's sin is hubris.

McCain '08 – Clinton '12

nobama-nobama-nobama   August 1st, 2008 4:00 pm ET

When you get the nomination like Obama by appointment by the DNC and send the weaker candidate you get results. once again America looses. You can keep calling me stupid and every word in the book I will not vote for anyone unless I am sold on the candidate. Not Hillary, Nancy or Howard Dean… Obama will not get my vote and race is the least of his problems….
McCain gets my first republican vote!!! Go ahead keep calling us names, there are a lot of us and the arrogance of BO and his campaign will doom it.
Funny that Dr. Dean was told we'll be singing Kumbaya by now…. never, never take away the votes away…NEVER!!

tony   August 1st, 2008 4:00 pm ET

Americans better wake up and vote for Obama otherwise this country will go down the drain.

yeahRight!   August 1st, 2008 4:00 pm ET

Sorry – this speaks for the poor education in this country and the bought and corporate news media. between the two they will run this nation into the ground.

Ken   August 1st, 2008 4:00 pm ET

If true, this shows America's voting IQ tumbling to the levels seen in 2000 and 2004. That so many people keep falling for this neo-nonsense is a disturbing sign for America. There are some VERY unbalanced and brainwashed people out there.

KE   August 1st, 2008 3:59 pm ET

Obama wafts in the air above everybody now. He needs gravity that only comes with experience.

“He looked like a man in a hurry…" He is running from people with real experience.

The Truth   August 1st, 2008 3:59 pm ET

If we elect McCain, this country will be the laughing stock of the planet. In all honesty this race shouldn't even be close given Obama's clear superiority as a candidate.
Can anyone tell me what McCain even stands for or what his plans are? All he does is talk about Obama.
Hillary supporters need to get over the primaries. Voting McCain is only hurting yourself.
If this poll is accurate it only indicates that a lot of Americans are ignorant, uneducated, close-minded and that racism is still alive and well.

m   August 1st, 2008 3:59 pm ET

The rich and powerful standing Right Now on the back of the poor and average America is Obama . He is asking poor and average American people to keep giving money $10 + first for himself and then for Hillary .
He knows people don't have money for gasoline but he keep telling people to give it to him.
Also, he is living in a house of 1.6 million dollars home! He is very very rich men in comparation of average and poor ppeople.
He is arrogant .

McCain never ask the poor people to give him money.

Right Winger   August 1st, 2008 3:59 pm ET

McCain 2008!!!

The least repulsive Democrat!

gotcha   August 1st, 2008 3:58 pm ET

No you cant
No you cant
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No you cannot
No you cannot
No you cannot
No you cannot

nobama-nobama-nobama   August 1st, 2008 3:58 pm ET

When you get the nomination like Obama by appointment by the DNC and send the weaker candidate you get results. once again America looses. You can keep calling me stupid and every word in the book I will not vote for anyone unless I am sold on the candidate. Not Hillarry, Nancy or Howard Dean… Obama will not get my vote and race is the least of his problems….
McCain gets my first republican vote!!! Go ahead keep calling us names, there are a lot of us and the arrogance of BO and his campaign will doom it.

Funny that Dr. Dean was told we'll be singing Kumbaya by now…. never, never take away the votes away…NEVER!!

Nancy   August 1st, 2008 3:58 pm ET

This shows you how absolutely STUPID people can be. For those of you who are still talking about Hilary…."GET OVER IT!!" How can you as Democrats even consider voting for McCain with his views. The country as a whole is much more important.
I guess it is time for Obama to go the low road. He can start attacking McCain's brain (senility), aging, and what about he and Cindy's spending habits? How can any of you think that John and Cindy McCain could EVER in a million years relate to the average American.

Kongtooth, your words are empty and baseless. Obama is a moron? He graduated from Harvard, could you?, I highly doubt he is a moron. Open your eyes. You sound ridiculous, get over Hilary.

Another Canadian   August 1st, 2008 3:58 pm ET

Kongtooth…you sound senseless…
There will be 4 more years of Bush only if ignorant people like you vote in McCain. While I respect the man for his years of service as a great American Soldier, There is no way America will move forward and clean up their act with him as a leader . He is hell bent on winning an war that should not have happened in the first place .

Right Winger   August 1st, 2008 3:58 pm ET

Higher Taxes(ULTIMATE people control)

Government controlled healthcare(and what has the govt ever done well????)

Gun control(govt doesn't trust citizens)

No Thanks, Keep the Change!

Neutral   August 1st, 2008 3:58 pm ET

Wow,

If Americans elect John McCain, they belong at the same level as penguins roaming in Antartica. Mindless wandering while their country/continent deteriorates. I can't quite understand what the American people enjoyed in the past 8 years. I'm sorry, but I wasn't sure that a shattered economy, thousands of soldiers dead, and billions of dollars in the red was what you people were shooting for.

Yes, it's a risk electing Obama however I fail to see how there is any other choice. The race card is valid because every criticism of Obama has no substance.

People say, "he's too inexperienced."

Often times the young buck works more diligently and pays more attention to detail than the veteran who is content with the status quo.

Then you say, "he's all flash"

It's about time! I for one would LOVE to see a charasmatic president that the rest of the world doesn't hate.

"But what about his checkered past?"

When his so-called "checkered past" is that of the actions of others (which were so over-blown) I'm not sure that qualifies. Meanwhile Hillary supporters fail to mention her "checkered" past is not clean by any means.

All these criticisms are merely in fear that a black man, yes, an african AMERICAN coule be the next president. If you vote McCain, you're one of 3 things. Ignorant, Racist, or American.

David Newport, OR   August 1st, 2008 3:58 pm ET

This is a waste of time…people getting upity about nothing…people getting excited about nothing. It really does show that this country is full of idiots. One more time…polls do not matter. What matters is getting 270 votes. As it is, nothing has changed here. It will exceedingly close because we have 2 Americas voting for 1 president.

ginger   August 1st, 2008 3:58 pm ET

The polls show America is seeing McCain as the most able to lead. He has overwhelming experience. His whole life has been taylor made for this job. Obama is turning out to be cut from the same cloth thst Mohammud Ali "I;m the greatesr".Difference Ali was the greatest.He had planned his career. He didn't take on the world champ his 3rd time in the ring.

Cindy   August 1st, 2008 3:57 pm ET

This race has proven ONE thing— Americans are wimps! Scared to give someone intelligent and inspiring a chance!— What wimps! Go ahead vote McCain but don't complain when you can't buy a home or gas or find a job!!!!

Justmyopinion2008   August 1st, 2008 3:57 pm ET

Pol of Pols does not reflect the reality! There many voters that are not cover by these pols but if it makes "Songbird" McCain and his supporters happy, fair enough. Come November you will recieve your live's shock!

Mary Ann   August 1st, 2008 3:57 pm ET

All you idiots who plan to vote for McCain who would sell you, your house and jobs down the river to help his rich buddies deserve all you get if he gets elected. Unfortunately the intelligent people will have to endure another 4 years with a senile old man who can't remember and his trophy wife that he dated while still married to a woman who unfortunately after a disfiguring accident. Don't dare mention morals to us either.

Chuck   August 1st, 2008 3:57 pm ET

Marc PDX:

Oh please. Obama was challenged by some Black youths asking what he is going to o for the Black community. He very calmly and with respect asked them to sit down and to be couteous and he would take their questions. They did and he did and that was that. If that would have been Mccain he would either have cracked some stupid joke or had the youth's removed.

Regarding deabtes McCain does not want debates. He wants town hall meetings where voters ask only open ended questions that Mccain is able to parry by skirting around the issue. He accuses Obama of refusing to participate in the the town hall meetings when Obama agreed to three and Mccain refused because he wants ten and he wants to be able to control the what, where and who attends. Mcain refuses to participate in the standard stand up debates because he knows he'll be questioned by professionals who ask closed ened questions that he would not be able to skirt and would have to give straight up and accurate answers.

Why do people like you twist the facts so?

Pam   August 1st, 2008 3:57 pm ET

I have come to the conclusion that the majority of American people are stupid. Otherwise Obama would have a double digit lead.

Rob Johnson   August 1st, 2008 3:57 pm ET

This will be a close election, closer than it probably should be, but Obama will pull it out. You try running for President as a black man named Barack Obama and see how well you do.

Once the debates happen, Obama will look strong and Presidential, and McCain will look like a grumpy old man who forgot to take his medicine that day.

kelly WI   August 1st, 2008 3:57 pm ET

hate to bust the Obamamaniacs bubble but a President does not set prices or create private industry jobs.
Things are going fine in America today. No recession. Still growth.
Of course if Obama gets his way we'd all be taxed out of our jobs, more taxes on gas, oil, coal, nuclear. Any place for a tax he would do it.
He's a communist coming from a polygamist father and athiest socialist mother.
And who's for baby killers any way.? Oh, ya. I know, dem women who don't want to be inconvienced and too lazy to see they didn't get p.g. in the first place.
Have you inflated your car tires yet? Obamas answer to the energy crisis. What a nit wit.
I'm not into wearing burkas either. If you want that move over there.
McCain 08

wayne   August 1st, 2008 3:57 pm ET

"NOBAMA" in 2008

Barack Obama 08   August 1st, 2008 3:57 pm ET

He has not offered very much in specifics that I have seen," Brian Riedl, a budget analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said about McCain's Social Security plan.

Riedl, however, was nonplussed by Obama's level of detail when it comes to spending programs.

"Obama's website has page after page after page of very specific [entitlement] increases, specifically within Medicare. It doesn't take political courage to specify the goodies you're going to offer voters."

"You can't judge campaign numbers the same way you'd judge a president's budget," said Bixby. But he added that the McCain campaign's budget proposals — including a promise to balance the budget by 2013 — were notably short on specifics and often didn't appear to add up.

Even many of the economists listed on McCain's site endorsing his budget plan stressed they were agreeing more to the principles of lowering taxes and cutting federal spending than to the specifics, such as they were.

"The McCain goal is quite responsible," said Bixby. "But I can't see any way he could get there under the policies they've been proposing. There's a disconnect there."

Vince -- California   August 1st, 2008 3:56 pm ET

A "Land of Sheep" …………

Unshrub   August 1st, 2008 3:56 pm ET

I am ready to votge for McCain, but as court jester..

Morgan   August 1st, 2008 3:56 pm ET

I guess this means more McCain mud flinging to come? He's right. Britney and Paris are really popular. Look what they've done for their old man. (I hear they're both Republicans).

Debra   August 1st, 2008 3:56 pm ET

The drop in the polls is only representing the Clinton people leaving Obama after Clinton was not picked as VP.

Kongtooth   August 1st, 2008 3:56 pm ET

Jasmine:

"I think its a shame how the Caucasian community uses every opportunity to bring up the issue of Senator Obama's race and then accuses Barak of "pulling the race card".

That's interesting… could you post some examples of the "Caucasian community bring up his race?

It's a nice crutch… and Obama is good at using it… but if you think he isn't the one brining it up… you're simply not looking. It would be political suicide for McCain (or any politician) to introduce race into this. He's never done it once… and you can't find a single example when he has. Same goes for Hillary… when he started pulling the card in the first place. He's a joke… and can only get elected this way… empty suit with scripted ideas… nothing new.

sh   August 1st, 2008 3:56 pm ET

I was going to vote Mccain (not any more) but I am disgusted by race issues brought by MCBUSH but on the other hand this is America and whoever think that Republicans have changed from their racist past is dreaming. You do not need to look any further than go back to 1960's. What a shame wolf in sheeps clothes.

Jerry   August 1st, 2008 3:56 pm ET

Who cares about these lousy polls I bet these polls taken by republican party, in the long run Obama going to win

heidi   August 1st, 2008 3:56 pm ET

They want you to get upset and off balance! As my pastor always says… the devil is a LIAR….. Yes Mccain claimed he would run a clean campaign but the truth is, this is not about America… This is about greed, hatred,and an evil spirit. This is not about honor it is double talk, lies and tricks from enemy….

The more dirty his campaign he draws out the worst in the human spirit. He uses the young, women, wounded and God for his purpose…. Be careful what you wish for!

Marc   August 1st, 2008 3:55 pm ET

I saw this coming…. McCain will be president cause NObama is a rookie and he can't win in the eyes of America. Hillary could have beat McCain.
Dems are losers…. again. LOL…LOL.

Obama is about change   August 1st, 2008 3:55 pm ET

He changes his mind for about every issue he stands. He is changing every time things don't go his way! What an empty suit and shame on blacks for voting for him just cause he is black. One should vote for character and beliefs of the candidate not because of the same race.

Silence Dogood   August 1st, 2008 3:55 pm ET

"Just goes to show how dumb America is where what they see on Television directs how they make their decisions! "

AND this is precisely why an Empty Suit can get so far. Act like a rock star and tell people what they want to hear without actual details and you are good to go.

Empty Suit or McWar – we are the laughing stock of the planet.

t   August 1st, 2008 3:55 pm ET

McCreeps insults the Christians and evangelicals.

P, CA   August 1st, 2008 3:55 pm ET

Marc PDX: Go back and watch the heckling again. Obama handled it reasonably, and the only hesitation (not frustration) was him trying to speak over the crowd.

McCain is the one with a notorious anger and temper. Everyone knows it. And Hillary? She just got snippy. Want another pillow, Marc?

*buzzer* WRONG. Try again. You're spinning so much you've dizzified yourself into believing your own wrong answers.

Stephen in Red Bluff   August 1st, 2008 3:55 pm ET

This trend will continue until Barack Obama and John McCain meet, face-to-face, in debate. People today are not really paying attention to the details and are letting the media (news outlets, sound bytes, campaign ads) shape their opinions, which is, let's face it, all we really have to go on at this point.

Once we get these two men together on stage, fully able to go back and forth in person, America will see just how out-of-touch McCain is and how wrong his ideas are for America's future.

Don't panic. It's only the first day of August! Polls mean NOTHING!

Kevin   August 1st, 2008 3:55 pm ET

Funny how nasty the Obama fans get when they feel threatened. Scary.

lol go away   August 1st, 2008 3:55 pm ET

Kongtooth August 1st, 2008 3:45 pm ET

The more Obama speaks off teleprompter the more McCain moves up in the polls.

The empty suit is being seen for what he is… a moron.

Nice choice DNC… Hillary would have had a 20 point lead by now.

Four more years of Bush… courtesy of the DNC…

Thank you… Obama… yes we can… get McCain in the Whitehouse!
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Oh really, hillary would have had 20 points lead now ???
because you really think Obama supporters would vote for her if she was PICKED over him, after he won on all accounts…

plssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Really   August 1st, 2008 3:55 pm ET

Once the windfall profit tax is put in place, I hope the oil companies layoff thousands and jacks the prices up to make up for their loss. Obama is not just the Mesiah, I guess he is also Robin Hood too. We should just set a ceiling on all profits. Lets say 2.5% and see what happens to the United States economy. Walmart – your next.

Janice   August 1st, 2008 3:55 pm ET

All I know is neither one of them would of been my choice. This is based on their politics not their age or color. I am one of the undecided and not really sure which way I am going to go. Say what you will but I have done the research and both of them are scary.

norb   August 1st, 2008 3:54 pm ET

Please! Enough with the phony numbers game. These poll results showed how inaccurate they were in the primaries and will show how inaccurate they will be come this November. Obama in a landslide! 51 thousand unemployed this past month. Gas at 4+ dollars a gallon. A war……….for what? Inflation, recession. 4,000 killed, thousands injured, disfigured. And………the list goes on. Does anyone in their right mind really going to pick McCain after the past eight years of Bush/Cheney? Get real.

Snerdly says   August 1st, 2008 3:54 pm ET

Always believe the Polls and eat your oat meal too.

Lee-- Dallas, TX   August 1st, 2008 3:54 pm ET

Barack is right. McSmallMan has nothing good to say about himself, he's allowed America to see his true colors and man are they ugly. So instead of McBash talking about his policies and ideas for the future of America, he bashes Barack– day after day.

I get it; this is really what the American people want. They want someone that doesn't focus on their needs, their struggles, their economic pressures, their concerns, yes, we want more bashing.

McCain, this has truly been a disgraceful week for you ‘my friend’ or should I say McLowBlows.

Timothy   August 1st, 2008 3:54 pm ET

Anthing that is negative about Mccain on this Blog they will not post it. this blog is for our comments Post our comments because we are the American people and this is what we feel, Post our comments about Mccain Please. If it's something negative about Obama you all would be tripping over yourselves to get it post it. Some of us American people are not fool easy. Some of us American People will show that we are for Obama come November to make sure he is our Next President because some of us American people want change and we understand that change comes when Obama is President for all American people

Matt: honestly   August 1st, 2008 3:54 pm ET

It is funny how you all think this poll means something. It doesn't. They only call people who have house phones. How many people under the age of 30 have house phones? Not me, or anyone I know.

Open Your 3rd Eye   August 1st, 2008 3:54 pm ET

Americans are a bunch of big dummies. Especially middle America and the hillbilly southern folks. They believe anything you tell them, trust me. I used to live in Jersey but now live in Florida and there is a HUGE difference. These people are backwards down here.

Put your game face back on Barack!

Obamawontwin   August 1st, 2008 3:53 pm ET

Are all you Obama supporters on CNN's ticker blog actually under the age of 16??? Sure sounds like it. Seems like anytime something negative is reported or said about BO, you resort to juvenile name calling. Plus, a lot of what is written is misspelled.

Just wondering……..

jay   August 1st, 2008 3:53 pm ET

What a joke! middle age americans are not at home on Thursday & Friday. These are nursing home polls!!

Bill Kelly   August 1st, 2008 3:53 pm ET

Barak Obama will be our next president. Thanks George Bush for making it easy for Obama, because McCain is really not the way to go. Too old and and does not understand the issues at hand. Go OB!!

tdub   August 1st, 2008 3:53 pm ET

Oh, the media horse race coverage has begun again. Different polls (with a margin of error) reveal a slight percentage change from one day to the next and the press attempts to paint it in broad terms of a "change", a "trend"—a headline….

Quite frankly, if the citizens of this country are so stupid as to elect McCain with his entrenched, almost mirror-mage Bush ruinous economic policies and neanderthol foreign policy, then I guess we get what we deserve. All because Obama is perceived as "arrogant" (how many humble Presidential candidates have you known?) and because he is a "celebrity". (oh and there is always the fact that many people in this country would NEVER vote for a black person, but of course, never accuse them of being racist) Well, nothing has changed, sadly this is a nation of idiots and the press is just as vapid, shallow and stupid as many of the citizens.

I Hate Barack Hussein   August 1st, 2008 3:53 pm ET

Obama is like a weather vane. If the wind doesn't go his way he invokes the status quo (i.e., the race card) he is a racist and relying on his black race because he knows he can just calim that is being targeted because he is black and white people will lose immediately and will lose their careers and jobs. There is not equality in America! Blacks rule and they know it.

Penny   August 1st, 2008 3:53 pm ET

From a former Democrat….I wonder if the SUPER DELEGATES now wish they would have cast their vote for the right person, Hillary Rodham Clinton! She is and will always be the people's choice, the right choice and the future President of The United States…! Go Hillary 2012….!

Steve   August 1st, 2008 3:53 pm ET

Obama, you need hillary!!! My vote counts on it.

Snerdly says   August 1st, 2008 3:52 pm ET

Vote for McCain and you wont feel the pain.

Joseph McCullers   August 1st, 2008 3:52 pm ET

The polls mean nothing. I know the vast majority wants Obama. He may not be as experienced as McCain…we ALL know that. McCain is ancient. McCain is one of those old senior citizens that forget stuff and think everything they represent is the only way for you or I. McCain is ignorant…Obama gives us ALL hope. If we vote for McCain he could die (he also takes many meds including Viagra)…he is 72…he's friends with Bush (red flag!), and he's Republican. What is America thinking? I guess we have MANY ignorant people who are satisfied with the way this country is…if you vote McCain nothing will change. If you don't want Obama don't vote for McCain just don't vote at all.

OBAMA OR DIE!

Darrel from Denver   August 1st, 2008 3:52 pm ET

Mindless lemming Republican robots who would vote 40% for a pet rock should be taken into account in these polls. Throw on the false dirt and smearing to give those mindless spineless wimps left and you have McCain's numbers explained.

He has no substance, no platform, and no argument than ' vote for me, I am not Obama …. and I was a POW and am therefore qualified to be Commander in Chief…. my age is my experience….pay no attention to that other man behind the curtain cleaning up my gaffes…'

What a joke McCain and the Republicans are…

KE   August 1st, 2008 3:52 pm ET

Has Obama found his voice yet? When all the people jumped on his wagon I bet only few knew exactly what they were getting into. Obama is not comfortable with himself yet. He avoids real debate, instead he uses race card when the tough get going. I cannot think of any African American person who will not want to debate if they are running for President (or any other Arab Americans?).

Barack Obama is most comfortable when he is quoting something straight out of the textbook, different meat for different folks, he pick and chooses. He thinks he is clever, he appears confident. But I think he overrated himself for this task. “He looked like a man in a hurry,” a foreign leader described about Barack Obama. That says a lot.

I wished the Hillary campaign called on Obama every time they played the racism and the sexism card. But when they did, it turned out uglier (I call that ugly campaign by the Obama camp). But Hillary proved how the majority of American people supported her by finishing the race. She found her voice and she proved it right to the end. Has Obama found his voice yet?

Enlightened voter   August 1st, 2008 3:52 pm ET

How could this be? Polls are great when it is showing Obama favor, but if it slants toward McCain it is bad and part of the republican lie machine. HAHAHAHA, these must be the same people that refuse to take responsibility for their own actions and want the government to take care of them until they die. Polls are useless anyway, there is still a long way to go before the real vote takes place in November.

Steve   August 1st, 2008 3:52 pm ET

Henry in New York, I hate to burst your bubble, but your statistics are WAAAAY off. Nuclear weapon accidents (warheads on the ocean floor) do not equate to nuclear power plant accidents. Apples and oranges. While both types of accident are terribly dangerous, you can't use them for the same statistics.

And Navy ships DO have nuclear power plants on board (I ran one when I was in the Navy). Nuclear power only differs from conventional power in the heat source. For coal/fuel fired plants, the fuel heats water, which turns to steam, which turns turbines which generate electricity. For nuclear powered plants, it's the same deal, except you use the heat from nuclear reactions to boil the water. On a naval ship, the nuclear heat source uses steam to turn turbines, but instead of turning an electrical generator the turbines turn the props. And actually, the steam generated also turns other turbines on the ship to generate electricity.

Naval power plants are even more secure than land-based plants, because they need to withstand the constant motion of a ship, and need to withstand the shock of combat. In the US there has only been one serious nuclear power plant accident. Three Mile Island. Chernoble was a completely different design than US plants, and the design was incredibly faulty…an accident waiting to happen, that finally did.

France has had dozens of plants running in their country for decades without a serious accident (their plants are very much like those in the US).

The problem here isn't plant safety. The problem is what do do with the highly-radioactive waste from these plants. THAT problem is the one that we should be focused on.

Janet   August 1st, 2008 3:51 pm ET

Obama will be our next president!!!!!
Yes we can!!!!!!!
Obama2008

Hans-Erik Iken   August 1st, 2008 3:51 pm ET

I am extremely disappointed in John McCain, and to a ccertain extend in the voters.

McCain promised a clean campaign, and having suffered from the dirty campaign that Bush (Rove) ran in 2000 one would have expected that from him. McCain was man that always at least kept his integrity, was willing to be a straightshooter, even if that cost him favour with the powers in the party.

Alas, no more. McCain has given control of his campaign and its messages to the same corrupt, dirty, underhanded crooks that are , in part, to blame for the state that the USA is in today.

The electorate seems to be buying all this crap as well to a certain extend. I guess the GOP is right when they claim you can never overestimate the stupidity of the voters, at least a large part of them.

What other possible explanation can there be when people actually belief this nonsense they are putting out? The negative attacks, the constant focus on Obama instead of the real problems the people are facing these days.

How can anybody in his or her right mind still support a candidate that has lost control over his campaign to these political criminals? How can anyody still believe that John McCain can be a good president?

This race has lost its appeal when one of the two candidates decided he would rather win then keep his integrity. I hope Obama can resist the pressure he must be getting to go negative as well.

At least we will have the hope left alive for a better future with better politics.

k   August 1st, 2008 3:51 pm ET

I rememebr the disbelief I had when Bush II won the election. I thought: "there is NO WAY that this idiot has become President"! I guess I may be making the same proclamation again…. There are Americans who would rather see the country fall than to, well, I am not going to state the obvious. If ANYONE, other than a person of color, was running against ANY Republican right now, they would be so far ahead in the Polls!!!! On the surface, people state that race doesnt play a role, but these poll numbers speak to FAR more than an "ego" issue……

Bill from ALabama   August 1st, 2008 3:51 pm ET

Obama has hit his ceiling,and nothing is going to change that. The only smart thing that the Dem. Party can do is acknowledge this ,and have the delegates and super-delegates revote,and put CLinton in the Nomination spot. It is ,truthfully,the only shot the DEm.s have this time around. They are throwing this election away with bith hands.

sh   August 1st, 2008 3:50 pm ET

Shows how the blue collar workers still think Rep will bring prosperity to them. They have lost jobs, houses. It shows how ignorant these voters are after 8 years they do not get it. Well their is asying "YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE". And whoever thinks Obama being black is not a factor are living in adream world. Look at the lifes of these rust belt states what had happened their states and they still like Rep.

Jason - Arizona   August 1st, 2008 3:50 pm ET

If Senior McCain wins the general election and is sworn in as President of the United States, I am going to renounce my citizenship!

McCain is WRONG for America.. Mostly because he is Pro-War and will not stop until he starts WW3 with Iran.. He wants more oil wells in America… wants to commit more troops and have them stay for 50-100 years in Iraq (thats called an occupation) McCain can't even remember that Iraq and Pakistan do not share a common border. Also he cant remember that Czechoslovakia is now the Czech Republic ( 2 times he made that gaffe)… McCain is unfit to be President of the U.S. .. Just watch the videos of him walking down stairs or steps and you'll see the nurse Cindy has to steady him by holding onto his elbow. Just say NO to McCain..

Its a shame that this is the best America has to offer anymore!!

JIM...TX   August 1st, 2008 3:50 pm ET

Anyone who votes for McSame is an idiot…If by some DIVINE INTERVENTION he should win, the rest of us won't want to see any of your blogs in 4 years whining about how bad things are. And they WILL BE WORSE! McCain is a Bush clone an that means the same old crap in a different package…old package at that.

anyway   August 1st, 2008 3:50 pm ET

This just goes to show We are not running on the issues. We are running against the black candidate. It is a sad day in America. They never report on all the mistakes McCain makes. He does not have to be better than Obama he is white. I tell you PUMA people one thing for sure. Hillary will have no chance of winning in 2012. We will not vote for her. If we forget the Republican attack machine will surely remind us how Hillary injected race and made sure that everyone knew, that rural white America is voting for her. She stayed in a race she knew she had no chance of winning. She stayed in and divided the democratic party. Even tried to bring Florida in Michigan backin for her own selfish tactics. Even she voted it would not count and said as much. So why did she stay in. We will find out in 2012. God bless us all to see it. Hillary will go down in smoke so get ready for another 8 years with the GOP. I can handle it.

A Canadian   August 1st, 2008 3:49 pm ET

Why no blogs on what McCain is saying or about his campaign rather than what he is saying about Obama? No wonder McCain is gaining in the polls as nothing he says is scrutinized by the press, while evry move or statement Obama makes is.

Chris   August 1st, 2008 3:49 pm ET

Refusing to post my earlier comment pretty much reflects the arrogance of the USA and it's refusal to accept valid criticism from outside. The truth hurts. No wonder the world hates this country.

I truly feel sorry for you people as you head down the slopes. As went the Roman Empire so will go the USA. The only thing you will have left are your "nuculear" weapons as Bush would pronounce it.

CNN is clearly losing it's credibility to the outside world.

Donna   August 1st, 2008 3:49 pm ET

OMG..not 3 WHOLE POINTS..what will Obama do???

This would matter more if Obama's lead was HUGE and McCain cut it down to with 3 points…they have been close the whole time…who cares???

Seriously, what will it take to have ONE day of no polling stories???

A Nightingale Sings in Berkley Square   August 1st, 2008 3:49 pm ET

Congratulations, you're trailing!

Just goes to show ...   August 1st, 2008 3:49 pm ET

Just goes to show how little influence the media really has when it comes to swaying public opinion. Thank God most Americans can think for themselves instead of turning ga-ga for the liberal media's golden boy. McCain will win handily before it's all said and done … and America and the world will be better for it.

G   August 1st, 2008 3:48 pm ET

Seriously people we don't need an update on the polls every other day. The polls have been like this since June. Up by 3 down by 2 we get it.

John, Boston   August 1st, 2008 3:48 pm ET

Hey Jasmine….can you name me one of these accomplishments??????

Please do because I have asked every Obama supporter I know and not one can?????

William in Illinois   August 1st, 2008 3:48 pm ET

A negative McShame campaign and the whining about the media coverage have helped the McSame gang. The democrats have plenty in their arsenal. Lets see according to President Bush and VP Cheney, Wall street got drunk and but they failed to take away the keys from Wall street when Bush claims that Wall street got drunk. Bush claims and admits Americans are addicted to oil, so Bush/Cheney are going to push primarily for more oil so that our oil addiction problem will be solved in America. The (2)two oil men in the White house know that all profits for the oil industry are good only for the energy corporations of the oil sector of America. Will Americans keep defending America in foreign lands so that the oil profiteers continues to think or care less about the struggles of Americans. No doubt that terrorism is a threat to America, but bullying Americans thru patriotism so that oil corporations profit during war times is not America… and I will not vote for McBush!

Steve Peterson   August 1st, 2008 3:48 pm ET

At age 66 and having vote republican in every election since I was 21 I must now say that John McCain's campaign is just more Cheney/Bush incompentency . I will be voting for Obama as there is no other choice. Anyone who has been in Washington more than two years should be sent hom

CrazyHusseinObamabot   August 1st, 2008 3:48 pm ET

I wouldn't even remotely worry about this, McCain got coverage in the country, even though I still have yet to relate to anything he says. In the meantime Obama was overseas. From the convention on is when the polls will actually carry weight.

doug   August 1st, 2008 3:47 pm ET

hey cnn, how about a disclaimer explaining to the average ignorant american that the "poll of polls" is a statistically meaningless number used merely to bump up what is otherwise a slow news day…

Coe   August 1st, 2008 3:47 pm ET

Please, no one called me and asked me how I was going to vote. Enough with the polls already! Obama will win in the end because people are fed up and McCain is coming across as a grumpy old man.

edw   August 1st, 2008 3:47 pm ET

Wow, today is Friday and they are now saying that the boost from Obama's trip has now faded. However, on Monday they said that there was no boost. CNN just shut up! I see if I want to know what is really going on I need to watch John Stewart!!!

Chris, Silicon Valley, CA, USA   August 1st, 2008 3:47 pm ET

Henry n New York: An engine is often referred to as a power plant.

Nathan,   August 1st, 2008 3:47 pm ET

The reason Americans don't get it is because despite what everyone wants to think racist fears still persist in this country. IF Obama was a white man with the same ideals, policies, charisma this election would be over before it started. Any white man who could walk and talk at the same time would defeat John George Bush Mccain hands down. We can walk around and act like we've turned some corner in this country but we're no where near the corner. I'm African American and I'm not just blameing whites for where this country is in race relations. After 8 years of Bush and the Republicans how could anybody be in a close race with a candidate who is morohing into George Bush right before our eyes. This just means that some people are less scared of 4 more years of what has turned out to be the dark ages of American History than voting for a black man. Blacks aren't exempt from this criticism. We flocked to Obama from a former friend who had never shown one bit of racist attitudes towards us. We didn't do this because she was so much different from Obama in policy. We did it because he was black and she was white. We could have shown our love for Obama without showing our contempt for people we saw as friends until thay had the audacity to run against a black man. The fact is both candidates will use the race card in this election because they know that is the one issue that will stoke people's fears and pride. They won;t do it because they're racist. They will do it because they know it works.

This past week the SCLC and Joseph Lowery endorsed a white candidate for the democratic nomination for the US senate in Georgia against a Black candidate. The white candidate was more in tune with the adeals of the organization than the black candidate. Every once in awhile we're able to look past race and focus on character. Unfortunately these moments are too few and far between.

Obama is young, smart, idealistic with different ideas about how government should be run.
Mccain is old, militaristic, a flip flooper and worst of all a man who thinks that Bush has done a good job. Yet this election will be close.
WHY IS THAT. ITS OBVIOUS TO ME.

Justin (ny)   August 1st, 2008 3:47 pm ET

Heres the scary thing – this means that these NEGATIVE ATTACKING LYING ADS ARE WORKING

WAKE UP AMERICA

Barack Obama 08   August 1st, 2008 3:47 pm ET

IF YOU WANT TO SEE "SOLUTIONS" TO THE MANY ISSUES AMERICANS ARE FACING, YOU SHOULD VISIT BARACKOBAMA.COM.
IF YOU WANT TO SEE "SILLY ATTACK ADS" BY THE WAY, THAT WON'T SOLVE ANY OF YOUR ISSUES, YOU SHOULD VISIT JOHN MCCAIN.COM.

James From Chicago   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

CNN PLEASE PRINT THIS…

It looks like the Rock Star is loosing ground. He is never going to win,
As a life long Democrat, I will be voting for McCain.

Donna   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

Can we have ONE poll free day???

Joe, Chicago   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

Henry in New York,

Just because accidents have occurred on vessels using nuclear power does not mean that the accidents were actually caused by the nuclear reactor. Now admittedly, I'm simply replying to your quotations, but on their face, they don't indicate in the least bit that nuclear powered vessels are any more dangerous to sailors than are hydrocarbon fueled vessels. This is apparently was the point that McCain was trying make.

To everyone else that claims American's are "ignorant" for voting for McCain, I suspect that you know very little about politics, our legal system, foreign policy, and the like. I'm not saying this because you dislike McCain, I'm saying it because intelligent Americans can disagree on policy matters, recognizing that their is no one right answer when it comes to tackling complex problems intertwining issues of humanitarianism, economics, law, foreigns relations, etc. Both candidates have shown their worth, they just have different on ideas on solutions to problems, and some people (a lot of people) like McCain's better. Quit whining about it.

Mikey   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

SADDAM H. August 1st, 2008 3:18 pm ET
Some morons on Bary Hussein's camp learn something.
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And to think that some people have the audacity to accuse the Obama haters of bias. Not only does this individual show his bigotry, but his grammer is so poor, you can't tell what he is trying to say, only that he is a dirtbag.

Nice company you McCain supporters keep.

Bill from ALabama   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

It is funny to me how every other Network has this race at a dead even polling,or McCain is ahead,but at CNN Obama always has a few points on everyone. Then when the election comes,just the opposite is the real case. CNN is ruining it's reputation,if it every had one. You guys need to just hire out your Polling to an impartial group. Your polls smack of partiality. Every other poll has a 12% undecided,but CNN says it's just 9 or less,depending on whatever point they are wanting to make. I have decidd you guys are in the business of making News,and not gathering and reporting News. Sorry! Just my observation!

Des,Toronto   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

Am I glad I live in Canada,the land of the educated.Our dollar is stronger and we have universal health care and we do not go around shooting up schools. Any person can be prime minster even if their name is mohammed,even if they are muslim,buddhist,catholic,jewish gay,woman,straight or atheist, and you don't even have to be born in canada just be a canadian citizen.Our sheiks can wear their turbans at work and in parliament. Well then again we are a much older an mature nation. Good luck to Obama,but the republicans and their divisive racist attitudes may still prevail for a 12th consecutive year…unfortunately.

CNN may not print this but it is the truth!!!

Obama 08

Former g.o.p.   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

Eric-PA: There is a Dog!
PUMA: Political Underhanded McCain Apparently

Anonymous: Racists usually remain anonymous

Matthew: Hannity in disguise

Bobby B   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

I would love to know who these guys are polling… seems to me that anyone with an ounce of self-respect and intelligence, would be done with the Republican Profit machine.

Who is the slave now America?

I don't feel very free when the government wants to spend my money to make someone else rich?

Wake up America, the dream is gone… or atleast has been sold to the highest bidder. Teach your kids to speak Chinese so they can understand what their master is saying.

mark   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

Go McCain! Maybe not the best we've got, but a 1000% better than Barack Hussein Obama. Obama is a black muslim in disguise, a black liberation follower and would be the death of us all. Taxes, taxes, taxes and submission, submission, submission. Clearly the Democrats are brainwashed (or brain dead). They could have done better.

ANA G. LOS ANGELES. CA   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

LIES

Bill Kelly   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

When a high percentage of white Americans say that they will not vote for Obama because they do not share the same values with him, is nothing more than racism. Born and raised in America, what other values does Obama have that are not American values? I am sick and tired of seeing political pundits and TV journalists act like they don't know why Barak's pools going down.

I do not care what the people say; come November, I will vote for Obama. Spending so many years in government and not learning anything is not what we call experience. McCain's lack of understanding the economy and his pursue of a failed policy is a clear testimony of his lack of experience and unfit to lead this country.

Marty   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

Go McCain,
I am only cheering this man on because Hillary is no longer in the race. She is still my man.

Josh   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

These polls don't mean anything. Majority of the polls a baised to either candidate. Also, these research companies that poll people only call land lines. I only own a cell phone and never been called by a research company. Only old people have land lines majority of the younger voters own cell phones. These polls are baised so don't pay attention to them. I'm preaching to both sides.

ben   August 1st, 2008 3:46 pm ET

Why do so many people make such an iaaye of Obamas middle name. What is wrong with hussein? It is just a name. Oh wait, it was the name of Sadam Hussein. A man who did us no harm. Had nothing to do with 9/11 We had him hanged! We got the oil we wanted we lost over 4000
of our young boys and killed thosands of innocent Irakies. If it will make you happy, I am sure a lot of dead Irakies had the name Hussein.

HM   August 1st, 2008 3:45 pm ET

Are you kidding ME!!!! These negative adds and inflammatory rhetoric is exactly what our politicians want us to consume ourselves with – Karl Rove among others as master architect. The results are politicians (both parties) that are elected without substantive plans for energy, foreign policy, EDUCATION, healthcare, etc. etc. etc. Get out of your little comfort zone and Wake up! Look at the big picture! The US is facing some of the most crtical challeges in its histroy Our great nation deserves a great leader. It is time that our nation demands someone who is qualified for the job. Look at our President and Congress – can you say disfunctional! Furhtermore, I do not see exceptional skills by either candidate, but until we hold our politicians accountable and stop buying into rhetoric and spin, we are doomed to the same fate.

P.S. The arguments made in these politcal ads are trival and baseless. Anyone of them could be deconstructed by a high school debate team within 15 minutes.

Denny   August 1st, 2008 3:45 pm ET

Unbelievable! To you people who are still angry about Hillary losing, Big Picture! Do you want another Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. I support Obama, but I would have voted for Hillary also. To the rest of you, if you like the way things are going in America today, and are pleased with the way government works in Washington, then go ahead and vote for McCain. Isn't it worth a chance to try someone new, rather than stay with the status quo?

Kongtooth   August 1st, 2008 3:45 pm ET

The more Obama speaks off teleprompter the more McCain moves up in the polls.

The empty suit is being seen for what he is… a moron.

Nice choice DNC… Hillary would have had a 20 point lead by now.

Four more years of Bush… courtesy of the DNC…

Thank you… Obama… yes we can… get McCain in the Whitehouse!

Jasmine   August 1st, 2008 3:45 pm ET

I think its a shame how the Caucasian community uses every opportunity to bring up the issue of Senator Obama's race and then accuses Barak of "pulling the race card". Obama made a simple observation of how so many people are trying to find a reason to tear him down just because he is black. We all know that if Obama was a White man there would be no question in anyone's mind that he should be elected the next President. For far too long African American's have been looked at by skin color first rather than their accomplishments and acheivements. When we think of "pulling the race card" we think of someone saying that they are not given a fair chance because of their race. Obama clearly knows that he has the advantage over Mc Cain so there is no reason to pull the race card.

Adam in NJ   August 1st, 2008 3:18 pm ET

The good ol' Republican lie machine hard at work to ensure four more years of the hyper-rich and powerful standing on the backs of the average American…and getting the average American to smile while he does it.

Please don't let this man become president. This will rapidly turn into a political, economic and foreign affairs nightmare that will make the Bush presidency look like Disneyland in comparison.

Go Obama!

Eric-PA   August 1st, 2008 3:18 pm ET

There is a God!

PUMA

Noclinton   August 1st, 2008 3:18 pm ET

Come on now CNN, stop playing up every minor shift in polling data as being statistically significant. Have you guys ever heard of something called "margin of error"? Just in case you haven't, what it says is that a 2% variance in poll data is not large enough to be significant, and thus *does not* qualify as news, and is not indicative of any sort of trend or change.

More responsible reporting practices, please.

H. Thompson   August 1st, 2008 3:18 pm ET

Every day I am shocked that such a large percentage of Americans are stupid enough to think that John McCain will be an effective leader. He is an angry, bumbling old man who's clock stopped in the 80's.

Dandelion.   August 1st, 2008 3:18 pm ET

We go through this at least three times a week! Barack goes up and down and everyone freaks out and thinks it actually means something. These polls are completely useless.

SADDAM H.   August 1st, 2008 3:18 pm ET

Some morons on Bary Hussein's camp learn something.

Just Sayin...   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

What do you mean CNN poll doesn't have a margin of error? It totally does. You know whats wrong with politics…polls…and CNN is turning right wing more and more…back to MSNBC for me…

Bob   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

Absolutely amazing how uninformed the electorate is!

Jan, Knoxville, TN   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

This is unbelievable! The press needs to start accurately reporting McCain's gaffes and dirty campaign.

Jim   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

HOW IS THIS GUY TRAILING BY ONLY 3 POINTS. COME ON AMERICA. WAKE UP! THIS GUY IS FOUR MORE YEARS OF BUSH.

David, Santa Rosa, CA   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

Barack is having to introduce himself to the country as a real candidate and the big name, well known candidate is three points behind?

Yes, we will.

Jack Walden   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

Just goes to show how dumb America is where what they see on Television directs how they make their decisions! No wonder, An American cant locate Paris, Taxas from Paris, France on a map. Scary…..

Jim   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

Debates don't matter. Remember in 2004, Kerry killed Bush in the debates. American choose stupidity all the time.

anonymous   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

Finally!!! People are starting to see the light. NOBAMA is an empty suit and it is coming out!

Go McCain!!!

Marc PDX   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

Barack got heckled today by fellow democrats (another CNN ticker article) and showed his frustration in his response. McCain gets heckled all the time but handles it with a smile and quip. Why couldn't Obama handle it? Because he can only handle what's written on his script. As soon as something new and unexpected comes up he loses the pretty veneer in a hurry and exposes his inner self. Hillary showed us that over the final three debates she had with him – the ones where the interviewers started asking Obama hard questions (after the SNL skit parodying the softball questions he had been previously getting). She outperformed him in each of those three and outperformed him in the remaining primaries over that time period as well. Obama only can work off a choreographed script – that's why he's avoiding DEBATES with John McCain now and that why he lost his cookies when he was unexpectedly heckled today. The inner Obama is starting to come out!

Matthew   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

This is remarkably similar to the primary polls. Obama has this ceiling that he just can't get beyond. McCain is inching his way forward. In the end, the undecideds who wait until the last minute will put McCain over the top (as they did for Hillary in many states) and Democrats will have shot themselves in the foot again by nominating yet another unelectable elitist.

Hillary would have been clobbering McCain by now.

Steve From Dallas   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

Finally people are seeing Obama for the egomaniac he is!

"I am" the change you have been waiting for …

get real! He is more interested in being a Rock Star than being president. He will say and do anything to win.

How about leave 50,000 troups in Irag… flip flop from … we need to get all our troops out.

How about voting for amenesty for the phone companies … flip flop from … i will never vote to give them amnesty for releasing phone reocrds without a court order.

You can go on and on and on… The man stands for NOTHING.

And that is Change we can not afford!

gotcha   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

It was bound to happen. Its a long road that has no turning. People are beginning to see the hollow rhetoric of the Democratic nominee, and are beginning to wake up. I knew deep in my heart he would not win. What a jerk. Presumptous idiot, why did he think for one minute the Republican party would let him win? Go, Senator McCain, my darling!!

TJ Johnson   August 1st, 2008 3:17 pm ET

As Americans are looking closer at Obama and seeing nothing, a totally empty-suit rockstar, we are smart enough to drop support there. Especially older Americans who have seen this type politician come and go before, are rejecting Obama. Thank Goodness!!

Matthew   August 1st, 2008 3:16 pm ET

This is remarkably similar to the primary polls. Obama has this ceiling that he just can't get beyond. McCain is inching his way forward. In the end, the undecideds who wait until the last minute will put McCain over the top (as they did for Hillary in many states) and Democrats will have short themselves in the foot again by nominating yet another unelectable elitist.

Hillary would have been clobbering McCain by now.

rkd   August 1st, 2008 3:16 pm ET

Unbelievable that after McCain makes mistake after mistake and Obama shows himself to be extremely popular and capable beyond the shores of the US, McCain is up and Obama down. It seems to me bizarre that people should think that Obama is somehow "too presidental". I guesss that goes along with the idea that we don't want someone too smart as president either. Look where that got us!

Allan   August 1st, 2008 3:16 pm ET

I don't want McCain,but even more I don't want Obama. H.Clinton or McCain.

Dale, Kentucky   August 1st, 2008 3:04 pm ET

Is there a poll to tell how acurate the Polls are?

CM   August 1st, 2008 3:03 pm ET

Man, Americans choose to shoot themselves in the foot one more time this decade instead of giving someone else a shot.

Polls don't really matter now anyway. The same pundits who are trying to draw attention to these polls also said that in the height of summer most people do not have their minds made up or focus on politics.

After the debates we'll see what happens. I don't think the Republicans will like that.

MLG   August 1st, 2008 3:03 pm ET

GO MCCAIN 08

Heide-Auburn   August 1st, 2008 3:02 pm ET

Who do the polls call? Only people at home with landlines and listed numbers? I work in a large corporate workplace and everyone is wondering who the polls are calling because unlike past presidential elections – it's not us.

Henry n New York   August 1st, 2008 3:02 pm ET

Why have we not heard publically and widely about McCain's most recent confusion of the facts.

McCain said in a Town Hall meeting this week:

"I served in the U.S. Navy and there are Navy veterans here who have sailed on Navy ships around the world for more than 60 years with nuclear power plants on them," he said this month in Ohio. "There has never been a recorded case that I know of where someone has been injured, killed or had ill effects of those nuclear power plants."

"Accidents involving American and Soviet ships, bombers and rockets have left at least 50 warheads and nine nuclear reactors scattered on the ocean floors," The New York Times reported in 1989, citing a report by Greenpeace that counted 799 accidents involving American nuclear-powered ships, subs and aircraft.

Source: NY Daily News, Greenpeace.

He would mislead us into building 45 nuclear plants with an accident rate risk of approximately 25%.

Not to mention the fact that nuclear power plants are not installed on ships. Ships have nuclear powered engines; was the republican candidate confused?

Fred   August 1st, 2008 3:02 pm ET

Uh oh

Tony   August 1st, 2008 3:00 pm ET

Just goes to show you how ignorant the American people are.

8 years under a horrific, incompetent Republican Dictatorship and they still DON'T GET IT!

RB from NH   August 1st, 2008 3:00 pm ET

The straight talk express to the gutter will crash and burn…mark my words!

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