Yesterday, our colleague Mark Halperin made the point that we should “watch” how the “media” are “framing” the “race.” Well, we have our answer!
From Politico:
A TIPPING POINT, OR JUST JOSTLING? Gallup.com – “McCain Now Winning Majority of Independents: Majority of independents now prefer him over Obama, 52 percent to 37 percent” – “John McCain’s bounce in voter support spanning the Republican National Convention is largely explained by political independents, who are shifting to him in fairly big numbers … The surge in political independents who favor McCain for president marks the first time since Gallup began tracking voters’ general-election preferences in March that a majority of independents have sided with either of the two major-party candidates.”
As my pal Jason put it, “Those numbers have bungeed back and forth over the past three weeks, but I’m sure now they’ll settle down! That’s what independent voters do, you know.”