Rasmussen Obama 48 Clinton 42

Daily tracking poll for Friday

Obama    48 (46)
Clinton  42 (43)

Against McCain

McCain 47
Obama  44

McCain  47
Clinton 42

Favorability among Demcratic voters

Obama    29  Unfavorable 29
Clinton  19  Unfavorable 34

Most Americans see both Clinton and Obama as Liberal They see McCain as moderate 41%  We're going have to change that moderate perception

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Also for your reading pleasure A favorable Obama article by Shapiro

The Obama difference

Unlike most presidential Dems in recent memory, the Illinois senator is at ease with himself -- even while bowling gutter balls in Pennsylvania.

By Walter Shapiro

It seems unlikely that Barack Obama will ever quite pull off this kind of son-of-a-millworker populism. His Kansas-Kenya heritage and his odyssey from Hawaii to Indonesia to Harvard Law School to the streets of Chicago is simply too unusual. But several times during the bus tour Obama reacted to a wrenching tale of economic woe with the simple words, "I hear you." This was not Bill Clinton biting his lip as he shared your pain, but at these moments Obama did convey a sense that he understood -- and that he connected with what he had just heard.

Despite the 15 months on the campaign trail, Obama -- like any presidential candidate before he or she stands bathed in confetti at his or her party's convention -- is still a work in progress. Some of the strands of his Pennsylvania campaign will soon be abandoned and forgotten. (But not the bowling.) Others may produce themes that will be repeated in TV commercials all through the fall campaign, if Obama is indeed the Democratic nominee. That is what the campaign trail is -- a constant process of trial and error. But Obama, who had just won his Senate primary in Illinois at this time four years ago, remains the candidate who has displayed the fastest learning curve in recent political memory.

Read the complete article at Salon

http://www.salon.com/...