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No great surprise - but in the last week Narconews.com has surged and Ruralvotes.com has declined and the two have crossed. The latter is still way up compared to say december 2007, but will probably see a further decline.

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Borrowed from the pollster.com

From Billy Kristol no less in todays NYT:

[snip] everything seems to be going swimmingly for Obama. Meanwhile, the McCain campaign dog-paddles along. And almost every Republican I’ve talked to is alarmed that the McCain campaign doesn’t seem up to the task of electing John McCain. [big snip]

Can McCain get voters to compare his judgment with Obama’s in a moment when the two of them were confronted with a weighty choice? Can McCain get voters to consider his leadership in this insta

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I am reminded by two events this weekend of a post that Marc Halperin made on The Page a few days ago. He listed a number of things that McCain underestimates about Obama.

The one that stuck with me is this one:

The astonishing enthusiasm that Obama inspires in his supporters — and how much it contrasts with the respect, but not passion, McCain enjoys from his own backers. (And the size of Obama’s crowds…).*

The first event is the spontaneous organisation of more than… Continue