England for Obama

Watch my new girl crush Rachel Maddow talking about the latest Gallup poll - which shows that Obama is leading McCain among registered voters - as well as covering Obama, Biden and McCain’s latest comments about the economy (and some of MCain’s older ones):

Looks like the post-Palin bump could be over, folks. Now imagine what the lead might be if you included currently unregistered voters?

There’s more data from, and analysis of, the latest polls here. And it includes the rather worrying statement:

“There is continuing evidence in the survey that any new national security threat, such as the September 16 attack on the US Embassy in Yemen, could work to the advantage of McCain, who was rated as likely to be an effective commander in chief by an overwhelming 82 percent of voters, compared to a 59 percent rating for Obama.”

- which I find both fascinating but also disheartening. When I heard about the attack in Yemen, I sighed and shook my head. It’s so awful, more loss of life; and it’s more evidence that current American policy just doesn’t work. The United States is hated even more since Bush and neocons started their ‘war on terror’. They have actually helped to make the world a more dangerous, not safer, place. Terrorist attacks have increased and the Bush administration has failed to make America itself secure. Please, please, Obama and Biden: make the American people aware of this.