Yesterday in PA, Obama brought out the "funny name" and "maybe he's got Muslim connections" theme again. (You know, "Barack Obama" is no "funnier" than many immigrants names - heck, my great-grandfather's first name was "Fiorentino" and another grandfather's last name was "Zelazny").

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Here is Poblano's analysis and estimate of Rasmussen's daily results.

Poblano had the nightlies as follows:

Weds:     Obama +6 (reaction to Thompson and Lieberman)

Thurs:  Obama +2 (reaction to Palin)

Friday:  To get to a three day average of +3, Friday had to be Obama +1.

That means Obama outpolled McCain during the GOP convention.

Depending on today's polling, the three day average reported on Sunday could show a lower Obama lead as Wednesday drops off.

I just don't do anything on a whim on football Saturday.  Go out to eat?  Better check when the game ends - restaurants will be slammed then.  Going shopping?  Better not drive within a three mile radius during the beginning or end.  I remember taking a ten mile detour once just to get home.  I couldn't just drive five miles home because it would have meant driving INTO campus.  What NOLA uses for hurricane evacuations, Columbus uses for football Saturdays.  They shift traffic to move vehicles OUT of campus and onto the highways as efficiently as possible.  Trying to get home INTO campus?  Sorry.  No can do.

To be honest, I am glad.  A bunch of out of towners blundering the wrong way on one way, one lane streets is a recipe for disaster.  They finally installed an exit ramp specifically for OSU Hospitals.  Before, the main access to the hospital(1/2 mile from the stadium) was also the primary access to the stadium.  Brilliant.  They have to park cruisers on the hospital ramp during game days to keep clueless civilians from attempting a shortcut.

However as a graduate of Vanderbilt when the mighty Commodores play the Gators the Dores have my heart.

As McCain has begun to chip away as Obama's convention bounce, most of his gains have come among women voters. Obama still leads 51% to 44% among women, but that seven-point edge is just half the fourteen point lead he enjoyed last Tuesday. McCain leads by three among men, little changed in recent days.

Couple of years old, from when McCain first started up his presidential run, but casts a pretty interesting light on McCain's views and how they've been shaped.  You read Welch's book about him?

There's no telling who they'll vote for in the GE obviously, esp. since Virginia doesn't register by party affiliation, but the Obama campaign is encouraged that 40% of the voters are 25 or under.

Also, they've has been aggressively organizing registration there for months and expect to see their goal of 150,000 newly registered by the close of registration in early October.

"Nationally, more than 2 million Democrats have been added to the rolls in the 28 states that register voters according to party affiliation, according to the Associated Press. Republicans have lost nearly 344,000 thousand voters in the same states during the same period."

    Everywhere I go we've been talking about change, that's been the theme of the campaign. And we must be on to something, because I notice now everyone's talking about change now.

    John McCain has said that change is coming!

    Now think about this coming from the party that's been in charge for 8 years, they've been running the show! Been up in the White House, John McCain brags, '90% of the time I have voted with George Bush. He and I we we're right there' and suddenly he's the change agent!

    He says I'm going to tell those lobbyists that their days in Washington are over. Who's he gonna tell? Is he gonna tell his campaign chairman who's one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell all the folks who are running his campaign who are the biggest corporate lobbyist in Washington? Who is it that he's going to tell that change is coming?

    I mean come on!  They must think you're stupid!

    I mean, maybe what they're saying is 'watch out George Bush' you know except for economic policies, and tax policies, and energy policies, and health care policies, and education policies, and Karl Rove style of politics - except for all that, we're really going to bring change to Washington! We're gonna shake things up! What are these guys talking about? Do you think we haven't been paying attention over the past 8 years?

    (Obama then went point by point through education, tax policy, energy policy and health care telling voters why McCain's version of change is not change like the kind he will bring.)

    I know the governor of Alaska has been, you know, saying she is change. And that is great. She is a skillful politician. But when you been taking all these earmarks when it is convenient and then suddenly you are the champion anti-earmark person. That is not change, come on. I mean, words mean something. You can't just make stuff up. You can't just make stuff up. We have a choice to make and the choice is clear.