A so-so article–which, in these no-official-candidates-yet times–is penuriously piddling, given the overall scheme of things. And given the media’s proclivity to puff up McCain and vilify Obama, the article’s veracity is far-fetched and fallacious. Until we make it past the conventions’ showbiz, until McCain wipes that smirk off his face, and until he decides to rid us of his petulantly puerile publicity ads, replacing them with something resembling real issues, the Silly Season will continue to be the paragon of paradigmatic preposterousness.

This story is based completly on a telephone poll. We kow that many of this group have only a cell phone. I find nothing in the article that indicates this concern was addressed. Secondly this poll is of likely voters. That is a tired phrase that limits the pol to those who voted in one or more previous elections. By definition that limits this polls effectiveness by removing many possible of this year voters from he poll.

The story is better than NewsTrust might lead one to believe, since the title is actually, "Pick a poll: Obama's losing in one, leading in the other" and not the one listed by NewsTrust. What's wrong with NewsTrust today?

The polling method and questions are not presented in the article. No link is provided. The conjecture that progressives who provided his strongest support for the primary are disappointed by his sprint to the muddle sounds plausible, but is not supported by excerpts from the survey data.

In my opinion, this article says a whole lot of nothing. It relies solely on the results of one poll (Zogby) while other polls, conveniently not mentioned, show the opposite in trends. SO much depends on the nature of the poll: how the questions are phrased, whether they are asked of self-proclaimed Democrats, Republicans, Independents or other, and in what proportions, and where the polling was done -- were more people in "Red States" polled than "Blue States" and if not, what was the ratio. This article gives NONE of that information and neglects showing the results of other polling companies and therefore really provides little to no information.