Rassmussen Puts Wicker Up 11

This is your positive, encouraging update on the Senate race. 60 is much, much harder to get to if-and hopefully, if the poll is good, when-Monty loses.

Timeout for You, Sir

Obama's people don't believe that their man is in danger of losing the election. Today, from Team C.H.A.N.G.E.:

His campaign manager, David Plouffe, was more pointed when asked about the findings at a briefing on Monday, telling a Washington Post reporter, "Your poll is wrong."

Later, Plouffe told the same reporter that he was a "stupid-head" and a "crock of poo-poo." At that point James Carville put him in the corner.

http://news.yahoo.com/story//nm/20080909/pl_nm/usa_politics_women_dc

In the famous words of Kevin Bacon...

A poll out today in the New York Sun puts Obama ahead of McCain.

By eight points. In New York.

Maybe the poll is an outlier. Maybe they got a bad sample. Maybe Obama's just had a bad couple of weeks.

Because the alternative...