Here's a few tantalizing political stories for you to look at today...* In this post over at Politico, Jeremy Lott is suggesting that "Somebody should plant a bug in John McCain’s ear about the man who could help him nail down a few must-win states and, more importantly, send a much-needed message to voters. That man is Republican Sen. Tom Coburn [photo at right], the cussed doctor-turned-lawmaker from Oklahoma and scourge of our free-spending U.S. Senate."
I agree with Lott. Since Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is going to be busy with a newborn baby (her fifth child, bless her heart) and Chris Smith seems determined to keep up the good fight from his New Jersey Congressional office, "Doc" Coburn would be at the top of my list too.
* Clifford D. May's brief column at NRO suggests that Tiger Woods presents a much more inspiring, much more believable example of America's ideal of inclusion than does the potential nominee who is doing all the talk about it; namely Barack Obama. A provocative idea. Check it out.
* Glen McCoy's cartoon starring Bill and Hillary is chosen to accompany Lucianne's "Must Reads of the Day" and, is itself, something you shouldn't miss.
* The latest New York Times/CBS News poll has some good news/bad news for Barack Obama. It seems his support has seriously dipped among Democrats, especially men and upper-income voters, from the poll taken in February after Obama's string of primary victories. True, the poll says his "favorability rating" remains very high, But those figures are 7% lower than the February poll. The poll also showed that Obama still leads Senator John McCain, 47% to 42% but his lead had been 50% to 38%. Hillary Clinton, the poll shows, leads McCain 48% to 43%.
But do these numbers really provide Senator Obama much comfort? Probably not. For deep in the article, it emerges that the telephone poll may have been skewed towards Democrat voters. For instance, more than a fourth of the sampling (510) were Democratic primary voters while the number of Republican primary voters was considerably less (323).
Therefore, the poll's bad news for Obama (the softening of his favor among Democrats) may be spot on. But his supposed lead over McCain seems more than suspect and, in fact, it has been disputed by Rasmussen and other recent polls which show McCain ahead of both Obama and Clinton. So, alas, it appears that even this flawed poll shows that the "Wright turn" the Obama campaign took last month was a very bad one indeed.
* And finally, this tidbit -- A Jacobs Media's poll of more than 27,000 respondents suggests that fans of classic rock are more likely to vote for John McCain in November. "Alternative music" listeners are leaning towards one of the Democrats.
