Good News/Bad News For McCain

Good news:

A USA/Today Gallup poll gives him his first lead in two months (amongst "likely voters". I predicted this last week, so it's not a surprise.

Bad news:

The same poll shows him losing to Obama amongst all registered voters.

Also, McCain had another "growth" surgically removed from his cancer-plagued face:

ABC News' Bret Hovell reports: John McCain had a small piece of mole-like skin removed from his right temple this morning at a regularly scheduled dermatological checkup in Phoenix.

"It was just a precautionary measure," a campaign aide said when she told reporters about the procedure aboard McCain's plane.

McCain can be seen wearing a bandage on that spot.

The aide said that it was "nothing that looked in any way cancerous."

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The aide was unable to describe to reporters whether any pathology studies had been conducted on the removed skin.

Some unnamed aide doesn't think it was cancerous, so everything is just dandy -- right?