Looks like Bush moved the numbers-New Gallup poll out [View All]

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How on earth is somebody with approval ratings worse or equal to Nixon able to move the numbers in a democratic primary race. I saw the Bush Knneset remarks yesterday and just thought no one cares or agrees with what he says. He is irrelevant. I thought that he would just be taken for the joke that he truly is. I certainly thought the Obama campaign response was effective and the democrats pounded Bush into the ground over his unprecedented political attack on a fellow american oveseas. That is something that just does not happen.

Well, guess what. http://www.gallup.com/poll/107296/Gallup-Daily-Obama-50-Clinton-44.aspx.

Gallup had Obama leading 50-44 for the last three days. Last night, the article notes that Clinton moved into few point lead. John Mccain had also been trailing Senator Obama by 1 or 2. Now he is in the lead. WTF!

Why are people still listening to Chimp. They did in 2004 so I guess I should not be all that surprised but I thought his credibility was totally destroyed by now.

Especially after the powerful Edwards endorsement and block SD endorsements, I certainly did not expect this.

Anyway, here are the disturbing details from Lydia Saad:

At the same time, the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking data on the national election, from May 11-15, finds John McCain moving slightly ahead of Obama, 47% to 45% among registered voters, after the two were tied at 45% in Thursday's report. There has been no change in voter preferences in a McCain-Clinton race, with Clinton holding a 3-point advantage, 48% to 45%. -- Lydia Saad

Gallup Poll Daily interviewing on Thursday, May 15 showed Clinton leading Obama by a few percentage points, after several days of Obama in the lead. The resulting slight narrowing of the race -- returning it to a statistical dead heat -- is typical of the way the contest has gone over the past several months, with neither candidate able to maintain a significant lead among national Democratic voters for very long. (To view the complete trend since Jan. 3, 2008, click here.)

Obama's spat with President Bush Thursday about U.S. diplomacy with Iran may have focused voters' attention on Obama's limited foreign policy credentials and could be a factor. However, media coverage of the campaign is conveying a growing sense of inevitability around Obama getting the nomination, and John Edward's endorsement of Obama on Wednesday seemed to prove it. With this kind of momentum in his favor, one might expect Obama to be stretching his lead over Clinton among national Democrats, not still struggling to surpass her.