McCain 48%
Obama 51%
Other 1%

McCain 272 EV
Obama 266 EV

House 266 Dems 169 Repub
Senate 56 Dems 52 Repub 2 Ind

McCain still can win the race but it will be difficult. Obama maybe winning in some red states but he is still polling under 50% or just over in most so he hasn't closed the deal yet. I don't know who does polling in Penn for Republicans but I swear they think that state can be won ever election and they lose by a decent margin each time.

Side note: It is good to see that people in Red States are willing to vote for Democrats when Republicans fail them. I wonder if the situation was reversed, if Blue States would ever vote for a Republican. We might find out in 2 or 4 years if Obama/Democrats don't produce.

The biggest difference between supporters of Republicans and Democrats, the Republicans know they are playing dirty while Democrats live in a world of self-deception. People here are ripping into Dole (deserved some what) but then you have an article in which McCain is dragged through the sewer, truly tasteless on this very web-site. Not many Democrats saying that it was below the belt, not sure if any of them said it was. Iraq Vet: My Former Hero Shouldn't Be President

This isn't all bad for the Republicans. It has been assumed by everyone on this site that come 2010 everything will be peachy. If it isn't, then you could see the Democrats in the same mess. They would have controlled congress for 4 years and the White House for 2 years. Might be tough to still blame Bush for everything. The Democrats will still need to produce!

danni,

Because Republicans pretty much know what her views are on the issues. I don't need to see her in an interview to know her positions. An interview is just another performance no different than the speech she gave the other day.

Obama didn't talk to the national press at the beginning and only did the local media stuff. He has only started to do the national stuff when he knew he had beaten HRC.

They are going to give her a crash course on the the foreign policy stuff over the the next 7-10 days and then she will start doing the interviews. She will be able to answer the basic questions like Obama when he started the campaign and will get better as time passes. She seems to have a good memory so she will answer questions with canned responses.

If Obama strays from the script he kinda struggles too. The big difference is that she only needs to demonstrate basic knowledge while he has to provide direction which is more difficult.

By the way, she is in favor of contraception but not sex education in the schools.

This issue can only hurt McCain. People on the right are just fooling themselves, this could be a big problem. For the average person, they might not say it but they will feel uncomfortable putting her in the White House because of it. The Democrats should stay clear of it and let the media run with it.

If she were a Democrat or a known Republican it probably would be ignored but an unknown Republican who the media are looking to define, she better have one hell of speech at the convention.

RastaCyborg,

They would handle it the same way they did Gores kid in 2000 with the drug thing. They ignored it.