[2ndDivisionVet]

I figured the author's name was it's own barf alert. This is the media getting the Kool-aid swilling lemmings ready for Senator Obama's defeat in the Fall, IMO.

[TexasNative2000]

Hmmmmmm.......’Dan Rather’ and ‘pure folly’ in the same sentence.

[Crimson Elephant]

I was actually surprised at how sane and relatively accurate the piece is.

All fair points IMO.

[Soliton]

If you must search for historical antecedents, you could also look at 1980, when unpopular incumbent Jimmy Carter ran a close race against Ronald Reagan

What nonsense. Bush isn't running. McCain isn't an incumbent. Unfortunately, this is a lot more like Dole/ Clinton.

[mass55th]

This just in from a Kinko’s near you...

[DallasBiff]

If Obama was up by 20 Dan Rather would be saying that summer polls means that the election is over.

[comebacknewt]

perhaps this is advantage Obama, as one theory has it that pollsters, who only use land lines to place their polling calls, are missing a lot of Obama's younger, cell-phone-only supporters.

I'm pretty sure most pollsters use random number generators that would indeed pick up cell phone users. Plus, the same methods that caused Obambi's numbers to be overstated in the primaries are the same methods used today.

Then, add the fact that the Republican candidate almost always underpolls actual performance, and I can see no valid reason to think Obama is in better shape than the polls suggest.

[screaminsunshine]

If Oblahma had a lead Blather would say the polls are all telling and all knowing. Republicans need to hang Pelosi around Oblahmas neck.

[big'ol_freeper]

Dan is absolutely correct here. After all, the MSM has not had the opportunity to pull the full range of shenanigans before the conventions. Especially the last minute “revelation” about the Republican candidate tactic they are so famous for.

[bpjam]

If Dan “I’ll Cheat To Win An Election” Rather, is already making excused for his candidate and hedging his bets by reaching for sh!t by trying to compare 2008 to 1980 that we can be sure that the ‘highest turnout in history’ is showing serious signs of collapse.

Enjoy your next loss Dan!!!!! You deserved every one of them.

[STONEWALLS]

....for once I’m with Rather....summer polls are crap....we need to all start putting money away for the Fall push...McCain will have to PAY to get his story out...Obama gets his out for FREE courtesy of the MSM.

[the invisib1e hand]

dan who?

[Cacique]

btt

[Mr. K]

HEY DAN, WEREN’T YOU FIRED IN DISGRACE FOR AIRING FORGED DOCUMENTS DURING IN THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL RACE?

just wondering - didn’t people used to hang their head in shame and stay quiet in the olden days that you come from?

[taxesareforever]

If you must search for historical antecedents, you could also look at 1980, when unpopular incumbent Jimmy Carter ran a close race against Ronald Reagan until very late in the campaign, when voters evidently decided they were comfortable with the former actor and onetime governor of California. Reagan went on to win by nine points in an electoral landslide.

Yeah, just like now. The media is trying to push their candidate and then when their candidate goes on to get clobbered they claim that the voters changed sides. What a bunch of BS.