You know what?  I can't stand any of these people. The only person who had any integrity at all was Tom Brokaw trying to get Pelosi to give an answer to any question. What kept coming out of her mouth was "we're for change". He appeared frustrated.
BTW Nancy, nice face lift.

What would be the ideal Obama response?
As far as I can tell, there is none.  This is one of those situations where prevention would have been best.  Not necessarily putting Hillary on the ticket, but definitely making a sincere, public effort to give Hillary her propers and ditto for wooing Hillary voters.

Right now Obama has the option of using IACF! as a response, which is an all around loser.  The other option is to have Hillary give Obama and Biden her full, unqualified support - again.  Obama painted himself into this particular corner by essentially ignoring and taking for granted a large constituency.  

  The campaign was skillfully run, but It was NOT indicative of Obama's experience or his leadership skills.

  The general election resembles a primary in that it's the electoral votes which count.  But the GE involves all voters, and the Unifying Gifts of Obama are apparently not as effective at this stage  of the campaign.

This will, of course, be all Clinton's fault, because she dared to call Obama on his BS in the primary, and all along we heard from Obama supporters that Clinton's real agenda was to undermine Obama by providing the GOP with fodder for the general election...

And there are still people talking about what she needs to do - for him, for the party, etc?  

Someone needs to tell them that if their ultimate goal was to be able to savage her all the way through to the defeat they longed for her to suffer in November, they should not have worked so hard, hand-in-glove with the Obama campaign, to make sure she never got the nomination.

As for the poll itself, this is the narrative from the article that ought to be of concern:

The results show little movement from the last Post-ABC survey, conducted in mid-July, before Obama embarked on a highly publicized trip overseas and prior to a series of fierce exchanges between the campaigns. Other recent national polls also show only limited changes in the overall race heading into the conventions, although several of those surveys indicate an even-tighter race.

Relative stability in the race stems in part from both sides' legions of committed supporters. About three-quarters of supporters on both sides said they will "definitely" vote for their current choice. Still, about three in 10 registered voters, and nearly as many likely voters, are "movable" -- those who are less solidly behind their pick or who have yet to decide. The number of swing voters this year is substantially higher than it was at this time in 2004, highlighting the importance of the next two weeks as the candidates strive to define themselves and their opponents.

There's all sorts of spin and hype about the new coalition and new voters and republicans voting for Obama and the like, but it's PR, don't actually believe it. Fight for the voters you need.

In just the last week alone the media has been fed, and gleefully amplified, talking points from the GOP about how "the (evil, plotting, power mad) Clintons" have "taken over" the Convention (and made Obama look weak), how McCain is supposedly using lessons he "learned" from Clinton against Obama (thus excusing McCain's tactics while providing the media with another opportunity to trash Clinton), and now they are openly exploiting party divisions -- and the media's willingness to take up and amplify anything that gives them an excuse for bad mouthing a Clinton -- with this ad.

What Obama and his surrogates need to do to counter this nonsense is to point out what the GOP is doing and STAND UP for the Clintons, show some outrage at the way these dedicated, competent and successful Democratic leaders are constantly portrayed, castigate the media for using these GOP talking points and for their obsession with tearing Clinton down.

They don't seem capable of comprehending that destroying the Clinton brand is harmful to the party brand. Obama doesn't have a decades long record of demonstrated dedication to health care, protection of vulnerable children, dedication to pay equity, family leave, etc. Hillary Clinton does. Obama didn't tame an historic deficit and leave office with a projected budget surplus. Bill Clinton did. Obama doesn't have a record of supporting small business creation, job creation and over-seeing an economy in which working class wages saw real increases for the first time in decades. Clinton does. The party can't afford to let these values and successes be diminished. And Obama can't afford to run a campaign that continues to suggest, or fails to object when others suggest, that the most recent history of the party he leads contains little more than hypocrisy, corruption, power mad manipulation and failure.

Those are the polls to start watching....Right now this poll (and others like it).  Obama will get a little bounce now with the announcement of Biden as VP nominee and into next week with the convention, but come Friday, when McCain announces his VP in the run-up to the Republican convention, watch any bounce disappear.

Speaking of polls, one done in Michigan last week had Obama up by 7, but the interesting part was that nearly 2/3 of those polled agreed with the statement:

"There are some things about Barack Obama that I'm not that comfortable with."

A lot of people say they're not entirely comfortable with Obama -- a lot of people you might not expect. Like more than one out of every three Democrats responding to the poll and nearly two out of every three independent voters. More than a third of people who said they're supporting Obama agreed with the statement.