Rasmussen has new National polling on the November election up.
Before Obama's convincing win of the Democratic Nomination, he was trailing McCain by a couple of points, on average, for the last week or so.
This week, he had changed things up, and had pulled to a 2% lead for several days in a row.
Today, things look like this:
Obama: 48, McCain: 43
Keep in mind that Rasmussen's number are based on a 3-day rolling average, which means that this is either a sustained improvement for Obama over several days, or one hell of a single-day jump.
We'll see if he maintains this new lead in the coming days, in true Unity-bump fashion, or whether this was more of a bounce that will inevitably come back down to earth.
We'll also probably have to wait a few days to see how this bump is reflected in state-by-state polls. If this bounce comes entirely from reliable liberals in New York, Massachusetts, and California settling down on a candidate, that's obviously far less meaningful than if we see movement in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio.
Still, this is a (dare I say) hopeful beginning to the General Election.