HOW'S BARRY'S "MAVERICK WAS RIGHT, I WAS WRONG," TOUR WORKING OUT?:

McCain Makes Significant Gains in Four Key Battleground States: Majority of Voters in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Favor Keeping Troops in Iraq, According to Quinnipiac-washingtonpost.com-Wall Street Journal Survey
(Chris Cillizza, 7/24/08, washingtonpost.com)

Republican John McCain has quickly closed the gap between himself and Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in several key battleground states even as the Arizona senator struggles to break through the wall-to-wall coverage of Obama's trip to Europe and the Middle East this week.

Wandering around the Middle East embracing the policies of George Bush and repudiating your own prior positions apparently isn't the way to boost poll numbers.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 24, 2008 10:21 AM