[Hoot Gibson]

Romney has now overtaken Obama in Real Clear Politics' national average of polls.

To those of you who believe that the polls don't matter, you are wrong. The public polls that are commissioned by the media may still not be too important, but the polls paid for by the two candidates matter very much. Those polls will dictate the candidates' campaign schedules and where and what kind of ads will be run between now and the election.

Follow the money and the candidates appearances, and you will know which states are really up for grabs and how the polls that matter are going.

Our president has now spent nearly a week talking about Big Bird and today, the Sesame Street folks told him to cut it out. That gives us a pretty good idea of how the Obama campaign is going. Obama has even fallen behind Romney in the Daily Kos' poll. :lmao: