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...required a slight suspension of disbelief to watch NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning as Tom Brokaw opened with, and kept coming back to, McCain's weakness in the polls in his contest against Barack Obama for the White House. "Listen, I don't have the most encouraging news for you today from the NBC News/Mason-Dixon poll," Brokaw began, as he sat with McCain in Waterloo, Iowa. "Here in Iowa, it now shows that Obama has a lead of 11 points, 51% to 40%." McCain's reply - "Those polls have consistently shown me much further behind than we actually...
...McCain, say people who know him, believes he still has a chance. There are enough stray signs of hope - like a one-day poll sample from John Zogby that placed Obama's national advantage over McCain at just 3 percentage points (though most other national tracking polls put Obama's lead more in the 5-to-10-point range) - to keep the candidate and the the campaign going. Eschewing the attacks revolving around Bill Ayers and ACORN that appeared to backfire earlier this month, McCain is focusing most of his firepower on two primary targets: Obama's readiness...
Obama, Barack •encouraging poll results for •endorsement by Scott McClellan and others of •"rhetorical flourishes" of running mate are noted...
...belief of young people that the government can make a difference, that politics can produce results, and that it matters to them,” the former Nashville mayor said. “We had many indications of this at the IOP and Phillips Brooks House, but this poll indicates that from one side of America to the other, this generation of young people is ready to be involved and ready to lead...
...poll also found that 26 percent of young people most wanted the next president to be like Bill Clinton, while 11 percent selected Ronald Reagan...