These are the four most recent polls on realclearpoltics.com. Gallup and Rasmussen are generally the best guidelines to go by. The Rasmussen poll had McCain at +1 a few days ago. The Gallup poll has held at +5.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
Average from 9/06-9/09: McCain +1.2
This was closer to +2.5 or +3 on Monday.
| FOX News | 09/08 - 09/09 | 900 RV | 45 | 42 | McCain +3 |
| Gallup Tracking | 09/07 - 09/09 | 2714 RV | 48 | 43 | McCain +5 |
| Hotline/FD Tracking | 09/07 - 09/09 | 902 RV | 45 | 45 | Tie |
| Rasmussen Tracking | 09/07 - 09/09 | 3000 LV | 47 | 48 | Obama +1 |
| NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl | 09/06 - 09/08 | 860 RV | 45 | 46 | Obama +1 |
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson









