WTF??
A new LA Times/Bloomberg poll shows Obama ahead of McCain 49%-45% nationally among likely voters. That advantage shrinks to 46-44 among registered voters, giving the Illinois senator a lead comparable to the paper's last poll in August. The economy looms large, with voters preferring Obama on economic issues by a rate of 46% to 32%. He also has a 15-point advantage for voters evaluating his ability to handle rising gas prices, and a 30-point lead on healthcare. But McCain has gained major ground among independents, swinging from an 11-point deficit among the group in August to a 15-point lead in the latest poll.
Is this just a stupid outlier? A very small sampling? A poll from 2007? Someone please explain it to me.
Not that it matters. Andrew Sullivan said McCain's campaign was in a death spiral, and that was BEFORE this pretense at helping the boys in Washington shaft American taxpayers with a bailout that may or may not be necessary, but is certainly much larger than it needs to be, and which seems to be engineered to crap on everybody associated with it.