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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Hmmm… McCain gets nice bounce
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
John McCain has overtaken Barack Obama in the Gallup daily tracking poll and has his highest level of support in that poll since early May.
McCain leads Obama 48 percent to 45 percent among registered voters, by Gallup’s measure. McCain has so far earned the same convention bounce as Obama, though at a more rapid pace.
Obama peaked at a 5-point convention bounce in polling published last Tuesday. He was ahead 49 percent to 43 percent in the Gallup poll conducted before the Republican convention. He then soared to 50 percent for the first time of the election, by Gallup’s measure, while McCain fell to 42 percent.
McCain’s 5-point to 6-point bounce so far, like Obama’s, remains at par with historical expectations. In the 22 major-party conventions since 1964, the nominee walked away with, on average in most years, a 5-point to 6-point uptick in Gallup’s polls. The presidential polling will likely remain in flux until the middle of next week.
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Seven years later, bin Laden lives
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In the first few hours and days after the attacks of Sept. 11, I would never have believed that Osama bin Laden would still be walking the earth almost seven years later.
Yet apparently he is. The best guess is that he is still hiding somewhere in the tribal areas of Pakistan, and perhaps helping to direct the Taliban resurgence in neighboring Afghanistan.
In recent weeks the United States has begun to get more aggressive about attacking targets within Pakistan. We have launched missile strikes and even helicopter assaults on suspected terrorist locations. As long as our intelligence is solid and the target important enough, I have no problem whatsoever that approach. When we said that the man behind the attacks on the World Trade Center would find no refuge anywhere in the world, we meant it, or at least we should have.
However, it’s interesting to note that a year ago, Barack Obama was condemned as naive and worse when he said that if he was president, he would authorize attacks inside Pakistan if the Pakistani authorities refused to carry the attacks themselves. Today such attacks are being carried out with little or no criticism, at least in this country.
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