Clinton 47% McCain 45%; Obama 46% McCain 41 (Rasmussen, 1/25)

What these polls continually show is that with Obama vs. McCain, some of McCain's support drops (I suspect largely among independent voters) and becomes undecided. People are still getting to know Obama, and McCain is obviously better known, so that makes sense.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/john_mccain_match_ups/election_2008_mccain_vs_clinton_and_obama

Hardly anybody knows about Rezko yet, do they?

They are much too close for comfort. And I'm not saying this just because I'm an Edwards supporter; I'm not sure his numbers against McCain would be dramatically better or anything. I'm just remembering back in early 2000 when Shrub was leading Al Gore by something like 15-percentage points, and Bill Clinton was at the time a relatively popular President and the situation in the country was looking pretty good. Shrub is currently very unpopular and the situation in this country is shitty, and yet there are still almost as many people wanting to keep Repugs in office (and in according to some polls, more people) than vote for a Democratic President. I just don't understand.