National Race Tightens

clipped from tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com These new national poll numbers just out from Newsweek are a bit startling: A month after emerging victorious from the bruising Democratic nominating contest, some of Barack Obama's glow may be fading. In the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, the Illinois senator leads Republican nominee John McCain by just 3 percentage points, 44 percent to 41 percent. The statistical dead heat is a marked change from last month's NEWSWEEK Poll, where Obama led McCain by 15 points, 51 percent to 36 percent. Obama's reversal on FISA legislation, his support of faith-based initiatives and his decision to opt out of the campaign public-financing system left him open to charges he was a flip-flopper. In the new poll, 53 percent of voters (and 50 percent of former Hillary Clinton supporters) believe that Obama has changed his position on key issues in order to gain political advantage.

When will Democrats learn that decisions based on politics only work for Republicans?

Still, it'd be nice if the media equal weight to McCain's reversals. But that'd require some sort of journalistic ethics -- they don't have any.

That's why only Republicans get away with making decisions based on politics.