by kos
Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 04:27:53 PM PDT
Bowers mocks the traditional media as "lagging indicators": While they jabber on and on about how Obama has "lost control of the campaign narrative", fact is, the polls are swinging back his way.
On Monday, the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows-for the first time in a week--Barack Obama with a slight advantage over Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. It's Obama 46% Clinton 44%. Yesterday, Clinton was up by two points.
Forty-nine percent of Democratic voters nationally support Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination compared with 44% backing Hillary Clinton, giving Obama a slight but statistically significant five percentage point lead.
For the past week Clinton and Obama had been neck and neck in national Democratic support, but preferences have now returned to where they stood in late February when Gallup Poll Daily tracking found Obama consistently ahead by a 5- to 8-point margin.
This comeback for Obama started prior to his victory in the Wyoming caucuses on Saturday, March 8, thus blunting Clinton's winning streak coming off of the March 4 primaries. Obama has led Clinton on each of the individual days included in today's three-day rolling average, from March 7-9.
The tradmed is a disaster. Flipping through channels last night, I stopped at CNN where the idiot anchor (Rick Sanchez?), talking about Obama's strong internet presence, asked (paraphrased) "Is Obama cheating" because of his online organizing? His guests stared at him incredulously for a seconds while I scrambled for the remote to change the channel.
It's no wonder that the wider public is becoming more and more comfortable making decisions on their own.
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