It seems that McCain is going to make this a race after all.
McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.
I think the reason for this turn around may have been the Russo-Georgian war. It is the kind of thing that pushes international politics right into the face of Americans. Then they start to think that a rock-star celebutant like Obama is not the right guy to go head-to-head with inscrutably blank-faced former KGB Empire-builders like Putin.
Russia would have a free hand if matched up with an Obama America. Imagine Obama sitting down "with no preconditions" with a guy like Putin. Obama would look like a complete neophyte compared to him and Russia would know that the door is open. Crimea, Poland, Ukraine: Putin can take his pick and strangle Europe's oil lifeline as a bonus? All of this plays into McCains hands.
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