THE SOUND OF SHARPENING KNIVES:

McCain Pulls Ahead in Gallup (Jake Tapper, September 07, 2008, Political Punch)

Not the daily tracking poll, the actual Gallup poll, has Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., pulling ahead of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

The numbers among registered voters are 50 percent to 46 percent -- and 54 percent to 44 percent among likely voters.

It'll be interesting to read in the coming years how the Unicorn Rider turned off the workaday press, but, in the meantime, you have to read Mr. Tapper's deliciously savage comment about those numbers.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 7, 2008 10:03 PM