Obama opens up his lead

[Von Tonner]

This has got to be bad news for McCain. After Obama became the presumptive nominee he was expected to get an initial bump up in the polls, which he did, but not by much. He is now building on that and this is without him having all his ducks in a row yet, eg, full staff, organisers, door knockers, roll out, tv ads running, vp selected, appeal for contributions, fund raising etc, etc.

He now leads McCain by 15 points. What this also illustrates is that he is not so reliant on either both or one of the Clintons as some punters would suggest. Bill Clinton has only today come out by declaring his support for Obama while this Friday will be the first time that Hillary goes public with Obama.

If he can come up with a energy policy that the majority of Americans can buy into it will be that much more difficult for McCain to close him out. And while McCain can claim the surge is showing positive results in Iraq, that argument is undermined by the increase in violence in Afghanistan.

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