Obama Lead Holds Steady as Final Days are Fought Out on McCain's Turf

    The polls continue to show Obama with roughly a five point lead over McCain and with Virginia holding steady in the Dem camp. In any other year, that would be sufficient to call the election for Obama and that could well be the case this year too. Barring a last-minute surge -- or, more important, the Bradley effect in which scores of white voters are essentially not telling pollsters their true feelings for fear of being thought racist -- Obama is close to home free.