Gallup: Obama Up By 5 to 8

Heading into the last 10 days of the campaign, we are going to see the campaign rhetoric, attacks, and poll swings, go off the hook.

Gird your loins and prepare for a hell of a roller coaster ride this week. It will be dizzying. Keep the ginger ale, alka seltzer, and pepto close at hand. Its going to get uglier, and uglier.

We expect some new attack ad surprises from McCain. They need to settle on socialist or fascist because these two are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Its confusing to even me.

Gallup: Obama Continues to Lead McCain

Gallup's likely voter estimates continue to show Barack Obama with a significant lead over John McCain. The traditional model estimates Obama with a 50% to 45% advantage in Oct. 23-25 polling, and the expanded model has Obama leading by 52% to 43%.