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The latest CBS/New York Times poll gives Obama a massive 14 point lead over McCain:

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead over Republican rival John McCain nationally, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows.

The Obama-Biden ticket now leads the McCain-Palin ticket 53 percent to 39 percent among likely voters, a 14-point margin. One week ago, prior to the Town Hall debate that uncommitted voters saw as a win for Obama, that margin was just three points.

Among independents who are likely voters - a group that has swung back and forth between McCain and Obama over the course of the campaign - the Democratic ticket now leads by 18 points. McCain led among independents last week.

McCain's campaign strategy may be hurting hurt him: Twenty-one percent of voters say their opinion of the Republican has changed for the worse in the last few weeks. The top two reasons cited for the change of heart are McCain's attacks on Obama and his choice of Sarah Palin as running mate.

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Hopefully McCain will ignore that part I highlighted and continue with his usual trend of getting nastier. We need a decisive victory this year and with McCain's temper that is very possible.

It looks like the interview of Sarah Palin by Katie Couric last week that we saw may have actually been the good parts for Palin. Reports now say that CBS actually has more video that is much worse for Palin:

And the worst may be yet to come for Palin; sources say CBS has two more responses on tape that will likely prove embarrassing.

CBS needs to release these videos since America doesn't know this lady, who could potentially become the 45th President of the United States.

The details of the CBS post debate poll are here (pdf file). Here are some highlights from it:

Then we also have this fine little part:

PostQ3. After tonight's debate, has your opinion of John McCain:
Changed for the better 32
Changed for the worse 21
Not changed 47

PostQ4. After tonight's debate, has your opinion of Barack Obama:
Changed for the better 46%
Changed for the worse 8
Not changed 46

Obama was clearly the winner of this thing.

Oh how sweet this is. McCain had a web ad out that twisted what Katie Couric had said about sexism in the campaigns. Well CBS complained to YouTube about the ad and YouTube acted properly and pulled it.

**Hidden Irony - we are champion CBS, which is owned by Viacom, for actually having a video pulled from YouTube. See - the world does change!

CBS has decided that they want to focus on policy during their televised debate on October 15th. Who would have ever though that a Presidential debate should be about the issues, and not the rhetoric?