ABC News: Poll Shows Obama Creeping Up on Clinton

ABC News: Poll Shows Obama Creeping Up on Clinton: "Most Democratic likely voters in Iowa, 55 percent, say they're more interested in a 'new direction and new ideas' than in strength and experience, compared with 49 percent in July -- a help to Obama, who holds a substantial lead among 'new direction' voters."
Novak Admits Smear Column Is Even Weaker Than It First Appeared - Politics on The Huffington Post: "Bob Novak took to the airwaves today to defend his recent controversial column, in which he claimed that Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was sitting on a bit of juicy dirt concerning her rival, Sen. Barack Obama. Why the need to defend? Well, to put it bluntly, Novak's Saturday column has been ridiculed as - among the more noteworthy descriptions --- 'shamelessly unethical' and 'unconfirmed crap,' for naming no names and containing no tangible information. So, to clear up the facts and keep his name in the news cycle, Novak went on Fox News this morning. Novak disclosed that his source for the story was not anyone close to Clinton but rather, someone who was 'told by an agent of the Clinton campaign' about the alleged dirt. Got that? So Novak was not privy to the dirt itself, nor did he talk to Clinton's people. Rather, he heard it from someone who had heard it from someone else. Another secondary source, Novak went on to say, claimed to have heard the same thing. Fact-checking = completed."