Throw out any poll that says anything about 'likely voters' or any other measurement based on traditional patterns.
Barack Obama is not working with traditional numbers. He's communicating with segments of society that have been ignored for a long time and it's getting more and more obvious that all sorts of folks are getting ready to speak out for the first time. The new shout will sound a lot like change: the jangling of 15,000,000,000 pennies.
Obama was criticized by John McCain in the last campaign for spending more on negative ads than any presidential candidate in history. What? Even more than Martin Van Buren's scathing I'm OK; You're OK; Harrison's a Tool campaign that cost him 5 barrel hoops and a bronze adz?
Of course Obama's spending more. Commercials cost more these days. And he's got it covered. He's pulling in support from corners we've never seen.
