Bye-Bye Bambi Bounce

On the heels of his excellent European adventure, Obama opened up leads of 6 points in the Rasmussen poll (up from a tie) and of nine points in the Gallup poll (up from a two point lead).

As of today, that is largely history.  Obama leads by only two one in Rasmussen's tracking poll of likely voters, and by six in Gallup.  We'll know more by this time tomorrow, but as of right now it looks like Obama received a quick bounce from his Berlin speech, rather than a sustained bump.

Of course, all of this is beside the point, given that leading in the summertime has something of a negative correlation with eventually winning . . . but it keeps me occupied.