Obama Extending His Polling Leads

Barack Obama appears to be getting a big bounce from the Democrat’s convention last week and perhaps another bounce from John McCain’s bewildering choice of the completely unqualified Sarah Palin as his VP nominee.

Palin was mayor of a town of less than 10,000 people named Wasilla, Alaska just 2 years ago.

Obama reached the 50% mark in both the Gallup poll (50% to 42%) and the Rasmussen poll (51% to 45%) for the first time.

Along with those 8% & 6% leads in the daily tracking polls, Obama is also up by 9% in the latest Hotline/FD poll and by 8% in the latest CBS News poll.