Check it out:
LV Aug. 21-23 (July) (June) MoE +/- 4
Obama 48 (45) (50)
McCain 45 (49) (44)
More below the fold.
Now, to be fair, this is probably a case of a bad outlier poll from last month showing McCain up by 4 being corrected, with a result closer to the norm. But still, this is a seven point swing in favor of Obama, with a sample before any bounces for the V.P. selection and convention. Great news, right?
Well, you wouldn't know it from the USA Today article. What does the headline here say?
"Poll: More than half of Clinton backers still not sold on Obama"
Utter garbage. The whole article is concern trolling about hardened Hillary supporters, and "concerns about his depth of experience". What a shameless case of a news organization trying to sell a meme over everything else.
Remember when the LA Times released their poll last week showing Obama up by 2? Their previous poll had him up by 12, and that was pretty clearly an outlier too. Yet the headline there was
"Obama and McCain in a statistical tie"
I had my doubts about the diary on the rec list about how the media is trying to destroy Obama, but now I'm not so sure.