Monday Roundup

Pretty quiet weekend on the trail, especially since McCain doesn't work on the weekends. Except for Palin's comments about Obama palling around with terrorists (which the AP calls a vaguely racist comment). Mostly, it's all good as Obama moves beyond the 50 mark in polling and keeps edging higher and higher. Repugs definitely need an October surprise because more of the same (and dirtier of the same) just ain't gonna do the trick.

For all polling data click here.

Here are some of the highlights, from kos:

On successive days in the R2K poll, Obama was up +13 Fri, +13 Sat and +11 Sun (MoE +/- 5.1 for individual days.) There were no new national polls yesterday other than the trackers. Today's polling will be entirely post-VP debate.

Sarah Palin's fav/unfav is now a - 13 (same as Thursday, Oct. 2, the debate day) and John McCain's is - 5. Joe Biden's fav/unfav moved from +18 on 10/02 to +26 today. The Obama lead went from +11 on 10/2 to +12 today, and Obama gained +5 with women and +3 with independents.

There is no evidence that Sarah Palin did all that well in the VP debate in post-debate polls, and there is no evidence Palin helped McCain in this or other tracking polls. Other national polls are in the field and we will undoubtedly hear more.

PS pay no attention to the crashing stock market. serenity now.