Still talking about polls?

Their has been a shift but Obama still has the lead on every single state by state map. Lets get back to this "why hasn't Obama had and maintained a safe lead?" nonsensical talk due to "the political climate". My original post on this still holds true and in an article by David Harsayni in the Denver Post a similar point:

...The economy, after all, is in terrible shape; no one likes the Republican president. There is no other way, it is asserted, that a candidate as talented as Obama could possibly lose this election. ...

...But is it possible, with all the problems we face -- rather the always-exaggerated problems we face during election time -- that other factors play an overriding role?


"You may or may not agree with Obama's policy prescriptions," Jacob Weisberg, also making the pre-emptive case in Slate, wrote, "but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the biggest issues we face: a failing health care system, oil dependency, income stagnation, and climate change."


Well, yes. It is about policy. Voters may struggle with their mortgages and curse those high gas prices, yet most of them won't surrender core values or policy beliefs because of the vagaries of the economy.

If roughly half the nation's voters reject...Obama...it means they're Republicans.

You see, this country has sweepingly voted one way or the other for at least 40 years prior to 2000. It isn't likely to happen anymore. We have finally reached that point in our nations history where for three elections in a row now, we don't have a clear favorite. Hopefully we stay that way.