Barack's Broken Campaign

With McCain's campaign thus far ineffective, with a new manager just a week into his tenure, Barack has been losing ground to McCain! When combined with his sputtering victory over Hillary, Barack has been adrift since the emergence of Jeremiah Wright.

How does the Obama campaign expect to repair the credibility canyon that he has in the eyes of voters? It has been four months since the Wright Scandal blew up, and the campaign has yet to attempt a repair on the its biggest problem.

The race for the White House is getting a bit closer. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Barack Obama’s lead over John McCain down to a statistically insignificant single percentage point, 43% to 42%.

They seem to think that the Wright damage will self-correct. They seem to think that inspiring attempts at deflection will fix a problem left alone to fester. Perhaps they believe all the glowing reports of Barack's prowess and inevitability in the media. But in the fall, Obama will face an endless barrage of publicity surrounding the Obamafia - Wright, Pfleger, Dohrn, Ayers, Rezko - and when people realize that Wright is not the exception, but the rule, his remaining credibility will dissolve.

Prior to today, Obama had enjoyed at least a four-point advantage every day since Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race over a month ago. This is the first time his support has fallen below the 45% level since May 31. When "leaners" are included, Obama leads 47% to 45%.

Why is Barack a product with negative growth? He's liberal (which Americans don't like), he lacks the experience for the job, and those questions raised by Wright have not been properly addressed. The infamous Race Speech was lovely and all, but it didn't have anything to do with the core issue that Wright opens the door onto - Barack will do anything, and associate with anyone, to gain power.

The presumptive Democratic nominee has been ahead with leaners every day since clinching the nomination on June 3 and his support has not been below 48% since June 5. While Obama’s numbers have slipped a bit in today’s report, McCain is at the high end of the range he has occupied for the past six weeks. However, it is worth noting that he not moved out of that narrow range.

It's not just the Rasmussen poll that confirms the problem. Gallup has the Obama lead at 3%, and the Real Clear Politics average, which includes some aging numbers, has Barack's lead down to 5%.

Democrats always lead in July, but not generally by as little as Barack, and certainly John Kerry and Al Gore didn't have environments as favorable as the one that Barack appears to be unable to capitalize on.

Imagine what will happen when McCain's campaign gets going.