From the New York Times/CBS Poll: a record 89 percent of Americans now say the country has pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track while just 7 percent of Americans say the country is going in the right direction Meanwhile, the electoral map looks very good for Barack Obama. Even Fox News analyst Dick Morris has produced a map showing Obama winning 396...

A new poll from the New York Times and CBS finds that The McCain campaign’s recent angry tone and sharply personal attacks on Senator Barack Obama appear to have backfired and tarnished Senator John McCain more than their intended target. . . After several weeks in which the McCain campaign unleashed a series of strong political attacks on Mr. Obama,...

Headline in today’s New York Times: “McCain Aide’s Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac Through August.”  It goes downhill for McCain from there: One of the giant mortgage companies [Freddie Mac] at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign...