Lately Obama has surged up higher in the polls than he ever has before. Now almost half of those polled say they want Obama to be our next president:

RealClearPolitics.com Poll Chart

But hold on, let’s wait and see how things fair after the GOP convention this week. McCain might experience a similar bump and take the lead. We’ll see tonight if Bush and Cheney speaking on his behalf helps or not. Conservative policy wonks are saying that the pick of Palin is energizing their base and that women are swarming to their ticket… but no polls really seem to reflect that at all.

They’ve even gone as far as to lie about whether or not people clapped for her.

In her grand introduction she mentioned how she was in the great tradition of women who break the glass ceiling like Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton… and the people booed.

This morning a conservative guest on NPR insisted that they all clapped when she mentioned their names.

Hey, I watched that speech live. Don’t tell me that people clapped when I heard them boo. Feh!

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