John McCain Takes Poll Lead Over Obama
by John Little on 20/08/2008People seem surprised. I’m only surprised that McCain hasn’t taken a bigger lead over the pretend president. At least the poll gap is finally starting to mirror the experience gap:
In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama’s solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.
The reversal follows a month of attacks by McCain, who has questioned Obama’s experience, criticized his opposition to most new offshore oil drilling and mocked his overseas trip.
The poll was taken Thursday through Saturday as Obama wrapped up a weeklong vacation in Hawaii that ceded the political spotlight to McCain, who seized on Russia’s invasion of Georgia to emphasize his foreign policy views.
This isn’t complicated. With the spotlight on Obama Americans are realizing that he just isn’t up to the job. They do not want a president who body surfs his way through a major foreign policy crisis.
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