In campaign news, the presumptive Republican nominee John McCain has taken his first lead over Democratic Senator Barack Obama in the Reuters/Zogby national poll. 44 percent of voters polled backed McCain; 39 percent backed Obama. Libertarian candidate Bob Barr polled at three percent, and independent candidate Ralph Nader was at two percent. Pollster John Zogby said Obama’s support among Democrats fell by nine percent over the past month.

John Zogby: “What’s happened, number one, young people, liberals, a solid core of Obama’s base just raising some questions about him. For liberals, maybe the perception that he’s flip-flopped on some key issues like FISA and a sense that for young people, I think, especially, that maybe he’s not the unique different sort of political persona that they expected.”