Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
Obama's numbers in the polls were actually up right after the trip--by about 7 points.

The evening out of the numbers in the last few days has nothing to do with, as you say, Obama's alleged arrogance or pomposity. The pollsters and political analysts all attribute the evening out of the poll numbers and McCain's few-point advance to the fact that McCain has gone very aggressively on the attack in the last five to seven days, including rolling out his new ad campaign.
But McCain is stating nothing but the obvious. Even I can't deny that Obama really is a pseudo celebrity and should honestly be demolishing McCain in the polls.

I'm a pragmatic who leans to the right. Really if the trip was so positive the ads would've backfired on McCain campaign.

And let's be honest here. Calling Obama "the biggest celebrity in the world" is not exactly an insult. McCains ad was very weak as I've stated in other threads.

Although I do support McCain (really I support Ron Paul above all) I have to admit that as far as campaigning and advertising that they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

This ad wasn't very strong and only pointed out the very obvious. If all that voters needed was affirmation that Obama is a bit overconfident in his position as the Democratic Nominee then I'd have to say that his voter base wasn't very strong to begin with.