Obama Takes Double-Digit Lead Over McCain

Hillary Clinton Predicts 'Big' Obama Win, 'Appreciates' McCain's Efforts to Calm Race

Clinton, speaking on "GMA," noted McCain's efforts to tone down the anger among his supporters.

"I think they've been negative, but I think Sen. McCain himself has publicly said that's not the direction he wants to go, and I appreciate that," she said.

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McCain has made appeals to his audiences in recent days that they confront Obama's candidacy with respect, arguing that Obama is a "decent family man."

For McCain to win next month, he will have to do what no other presidential candidate has ever done -- come back from a 10-point deficit with only three weeks to go.

"No candidate has ever lost with a lead like this since modern polling began in 1936," ABC News' senior Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos told "GMA."

Stephanopoulos said Obama's candidacy is riding a surge of public opinion, fueled by the current economic crisis, which is devastating for the Republicans.

A record number 90 percent of Americans feel the country is on the wrong track and 73 percent disapprove of President Bush's performance, according to the ABC/Post poll.

That disapproval number is also a record, and because Bush is a Republican, it makes it harder for McCain, the GOP candidate, to argue that he would be best to handle the economy.