The new Reuters/Zogby national poll (via DKos) shows Clinton's lead over Obama shrinking to a statistically irrelevant single point, down from a 21-point lead in October and an 8-point lead last month. National polls have tended to be lagging indicators of Obama's strength, probably due to Clinton's very high name recognition; in states where he's actually been campaigning his numbers have generally beat the national number by a significant amount. So this is good news. It's the same happy trend I was so happy to highlight in chart form earlier in the week with the similar Washington Post/ABC News poll.
This must be why Bill Clinton is going around making utterly ludicrous claims like "Obama is the establishment candidate."
UPDATE: Meanwhile, the Republican candidates all share one bond, reports the New York Post: they're all losers.
The only common bond among the Republicans running is that each one has managed to humiliate himself with disastrous defeats at some point or another.
These guys have no running game, no passing game, no nothing.
Mike Huckabee got the ball in Iowa and promptly dropped it. John McCain got it in New Hampshire and fumbled it last night in Michigan.
Now Mitt Romney has the ball and is destined to drop it in South Carolina on Saturday.
But there's only one GOP candidate that beats all the rest at being a loser: Rudy Giuliani.
He has perfected the art of underperforming to the point that his campaign now insists it was all part of his game plan.
He's been reduced to watching from the sidelines and praying for other people to lose - like McCain in Michigan so his momentum would be stalled - rather than getting in the game and winning himself.
In fact, Rudy's campaigned so badly that the latest poll shows him losing New Jersey, which had a front-row seat for his shining moment during 9/11.
Even fringe candidate Ron Paul - the million-to-one long shot everybody picks on to make themselves look good - is beating Giuliani.
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