SeeBS says...

CBSNYT Poll: Obama Opens 14-Point Lead On McCainThe Obama-Biden ticket now leads the McCain-Palin ticket 53 percent to 39 percent among likely voters, a 14-point margin. One week ago, prior to the Town Hall debate that uncommitted voters saw as a win for Obama, that margin was just three points.

This from the CBSNYTimes poll, so you know it's completely unbiased. :eyeroll: Meanwhile Zogby has The One up by 6 points and Rasmussen has Him up by 5 points. I don't put much stock in polls. Aside from weighted the sampling to get a desired outcome (not that I'm saying CBS or the NY Times would evvvvvver do that with their reporting, for example), there is also the "who the heck has time to sit through these polls?" thing. Then there's race.

The race card has been played fast and hard in this election. Hell, when you can convince folks that Bill Clinton, of all people, is a racist, it's easy peasy to convince people that Republicans are. You've already got the conditioning to rely on there. People don't want to be called or thought of as being racist. Especially when they're not. That doesn't matter in this election however. If you disagree with or question Sen. Obama, his policies, his associations et cetera, you are labeled racist. (Which is going to make things very interesting should, heaven forbid, Sen. Obama get into the White House, but that's a rant for another day.) How many being in these polls are allowing this fear to color their responses? How many, so as not to be thought of as a racist, are saying they support Sen. Obama?

Then there's this: Should Sen. Obama, in spite of 95% of the "mainstream" media being totally, completely, certifiably in the tank for him and in spite of the rampant voter fraud his minions at ACORN and elsewhere and in spite of Sen. McCain refusing to hold his Commie feet to the fire, lose the election, people are going to look at these polls, take them for fact, and go gonzo apeshite.