Obama hyped his announcement of his VP.  He hyped his acceptance speech at the Democrat convention.  Hell, he moved his convention speech out of the convention hall and into a football stadium.  We were told by Obama’s sycophants in the media that the acceptance was a “historic moment.”

Well, apparently Americans didn’t think so.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — On the eve of the Republican convention, a new national poll suggests the race for the White House remains dead even.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Sunday night shows the Obama-Biden ticket leading the McCain-Palin ticket by one point, 49 percent to 48 percent, a statistical dead heat.

The survey was conducted Friday through Sunday, after both the conclusion of the Democratic convention and McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.

A previous CNN poll, taken just one week earlier, suggested the race between Sens. McCain, R-Arizona, and Obama, D-Illinois, was tied at 47 percent each.

For all the hype about Obama he can’t even establish a significant lead in the polls over a Republican candidate conservatives are lukewarm about, at best.