Our likely nominee Barack Obama now leads John McCain by 2.7% in the RCP Average - an astonishing achievement given the month-long Corporate Media sh*tstorm over Rev. Wright.

This is fantastic news for Democrats because the endless primary has been fairly negative, although not nearly as negative as many pundits and bloggers have claimed.

Exit polls in NC and IN showed a lot of Clinton supporters are angry at Obama, and this is depressing Obama's polls. When Clinton eventually drops out and endorses Obama, that will give Obama's polls a significant boost - possibly adding 5% to his lead.

And then Obama will be able to raise and spend huge amounts of money to go after McCain, while McCain scrounges for pennies.

So if things go smoothly, Obama could pull ahead of McCain by 10% even before the conventions begin. And who do you think will give a better convention speech?

Republicans are already getting desperate. Yesterday they sent Mitt Romney onto CNN to attack Obama, as if anyone in America cares what Romney thinks.

Of course, over at War Criminal Central (the White House), they're reading these polls too. And as Obama's lead grows, the odds of an "October Surprise" attack on Iran grow in direct proportion.

If Democrats want to win in November, Congress should get this ugly issue out of the shadows by holding hearings now on Bush's secret plans to attack Iran.