McCain Leads

Did Joe Biden's selection as Barack's running mate excite voters?

It's official: Barack Obama has received no bounce in voter support out of his selection of Sen. Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate.

While Rasmussen shows the race as a tie, today's Gallup Daily Tracking Poll has McCain jumping into a 2 point lead.

Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Aug. 23-25, the first three-day period falling entirely after Obama's Saturday morning vice presidential announcement, shows 46% of national registered voters backing John McCain and 44% supporting Obama, not appreciably different from the previous week's standing for both candidates.

This is not the direction that the numbers should be heading, but Barack mismanaged the Biden announcement by releasing it at 3am Saturday morning, the best place to bury a story. It should have come out days earlier.

This is the first time since Obama clinched the nomination in early June, though, that McCain has held any kind of advantage over Obama in Gallup Poll Daily tracking.