Poll-itics: Wow! edition

By GottaLaff

UPDATE-- Gramm-pa McCain's team responds to this poll:

Bill McInturff, Sen. John McCain's pollster, writes:

"The financial tsunami has produced one of the most difficult and volatile times to conduct polling in modern times. During these uniquely volatile last few weeks, I have seen as much day-to-day movement as I have witnessed in my 20 plus year career as a pollster."

I guess Gramm-pa McCain has Obama "right where he wants him":

The jawdropping numbers from the CBS News / New York Times poll are, yes, the top-line...Obama leads among likely voters 53% to 39%. But more than that: which candidate will raise your taxes? Respondents, by 51% to 46%, say it's McCain. [...]

He's tied among whites, shooting up fifteen percentage points since the last survey; he's winning men and women; he's marginally improving his standing among white evangelicals; he's substantially improved his standing among self-described moderates and among independents (a full third of this group swung toward Obama); Obama's now getting 82% of Clinton supporters.

You can bet that McCain's polling team will respond to this one...a lot of the deltas in this poll are probably unprecedented for their time period.

Wow. L word*.

*Landslide