Obama Leads McCain Palin in all Polls - Why?

In the latest Gallup survey tracking poll, Obama leads the McCain - Palin ticket by 5 percentage points, 49% to 44%. The report came out today, on September 19, 2008. Click here to view it.

This Gallup survey is not the only one Obama is leading in. In all major public surveys, Obama is ahead of McCain by a few points, or at the minimum they are shown to be tied.

Just after the Republican National Convention, McCain came out with a fire under his bottom, boosting in the polls at about 4 or 5 points ahead of Obama. But what happened to that lead, and why is Obama now the leader?

My guess is that Obama's increase in the polls is due to a combination of factors. Some of those factors include:

1) Bad economic times, along with the reports of the Wall Street meltdown, beginning with the Sept. 14 announcement that the Lehman Brothers were headed for bankruptcy.

2) Sarah Palin is being battered in the news, as if she were being victimized by an abusive husband. She is being slaughtered at every chance possible by the general media. It's not only the hard left, but every media source is letting out their venom towards her.

3) McCain's dubious advertisements aren't helping him very much. Some of the "quotes" on his ads were stretching the truth at best. Misleading would probably be the best way to put it. Obama has done the same thing, especially with some of his Spanish ads, but he had the advantage of hiding it in the language, plus saying "McCain did it first."

4) The country in general is not real happy with leaving a Party in the White House for more than eight years. No matter who the guy is, they kind of just want to change the party that's leading the country just because something doesn't sit right for one party to be at the head of the table for so long.

- But all of these factors are not permanent disablers to the McCain Campaign. If they can continue to satisfy the conservative base of the Republican party, as well as igniting those independents who love his "maverick" streak, then he still has a very good chance of overcoming the roadblocks that he has to face.