How does it benefit Obama when he still won't recognize it worked and said if faced with the same decision he would still vote against it?  Yes, it is Newsweek, but this is the leftist media echo chamber, they just say something absurd like this until they have all convinced themselves it must be true.  Obama's trip to Iraq and Afghanistan was an embarrassment for his campaign if not for the incredible spin of the msm.

Wow that's false advertizing. "Convential wisdom", HA!

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This is not an "admission" by Newsweek that the surge worked or anything else. As I pointed out in response to one of Mr. Shepherd's pieces last month that made a similar claim regarding the CW column, the magazine used to point out that "The CW is not NEWSWEEK's opinion, but an informal distillation of the ever-changing thinking of Beltway pundits and the chattering classes."

Question on Polls. What makes these polls more accurate than the past polls? Seems to me that they missed the mark in the last two elections. They were not right then, not even the exit polls were correct. Now what is it that makes me belive these?

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And this is something I mentioned a month ago on my blog. In short, success in Iraq is a bad thing for McCain because it takes Iraq off the table as a political opportunity.  The general populace is no longer concerned about Iraq.  It's "out of sight; out of mind". People are far more concerned about domestic issues, an area of weakness for McCain.

So, Newsweek gets one right.  But as the adage goes, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.