Well the world certainly fell for it (including the Chicago Tribune) or at least enjoyed promoting it (as well as just about every media here):

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1337262320080713
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14714707
http://www.france24.com/en/20080621-obama-jumps-15-point-lead-over-mccain-newsweek
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-takes-15point-lead-over-mccain-852345.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10517846
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2008/06/26/162719/Obama-leads.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=agCTbSDJ83rc&refer=home
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-poll25-2008jun25,0,5763707.story
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080714.asp#1
http://mediamatters.org/items/200807170011?f=h_popular
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-polljun25,0,2293938.story

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>>>We should just let this go before you tie yourself completely in knots. In your initial message you were crowing that Obama's 15 point lead had been whittled down to statistical insignificance. Now you say you never believed it was a 15 point lead. Sort of like if you put enough ping pong balls in the hopper and write over the numbers on them enough times we'll all get so dizzy we'll forget what the original numbers were? Arguing numbers with you is like playing three card monte.
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>>>One thing I'm sure we can agree on is it doesn't make much difference what the polls say now. The only count that matters will come the first week in November. Or maybe a month later if Florida is involved <g>.
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>>Haha, that's funny. I cited one of "your" news sources, then pointed out how even the combined polls from three weeks ago showed Obama with 8 points and now they show 4 points and you think that's good for hussein? Oh well.
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>>You are right about the one poll that matters, and that other recount thingy too!
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>I didn't say I thought it was good for Obama, just that I didn't think there had been a 15 point swing.
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>Over and out on this one.