Posted on 11/02/2008 10:23:17 PM PST by libh8er
UTICA, New York - As Election Day nears in the U.S. Presidential race, Democrat Barack Obama has increased his lead to 7.1 points over Republican John McCain, up from a 5.7 point advantage in yesterday's report, the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby daily tracking poll shows.
Pollster John Zogby: "Barack Obama is where he needs to be and John McCain is not. In a multi-candidate race, assuming the minor candidates can win around 2%, 51% can win. Obama holds the groups that he needs and continues to hold a big lead among independents and his base. McCain seems to be holding his base without expanding it or moving into Obama's territory. A reminder: we will have another release based on polling through midnight Monday out early Tuesday."
Week Four
Three-Day
Tracking Poll
11-2
11-1
10-31
10-30
10-29
10-28
10-27
Obama
50.9%
49.5%
49.1%
50.1%
50.2%
49.1%
49.0%
McCain
43.8%
43.8%
44.1%
43.1%
43.3%
44.4%
44.7%
Others/Not sure
5.3%
6.7%
6.8%
6.8%
6.5%
6.5%
6.3%
If it’s monday O is up. Since Oct this has been the pattern. Each week except 1 , this has been the case. So what. What is the value of a weekend poll?
I guess Zogby gets thrown in there with Gallup and Pew in the “all credibility lost while pimping for the Messiah” crowd......
That's how the 1980 election was. The GOP crushed the Dems and took back the senate, but every race was called “very close” by the press.
When Jon Engler won in Michigan, the press acted stunned. They expect to win all the time because of their massive propaganda apparatus.
I'm not saying McCain will win, but the press was reporting double digit Clinton leads against both Bush one and Dole.
i knew the final polls were going to miraculously show Obama at 50 percent or higher... this is the number everyone says he has to be in order to win... it’s all artificial, i’m sure...
What happened to McCain by 1 point on Friday?
This from the same pollster that had Kerry up by 9 in VA the morning of the election in 2004......
Don’t forget... They have to make the market sad and cry... That way the Economy tanks just in time for Tuesday. ;-)
I doubt that Zogby even polls at all. He threw that out there to get attention, and it worked.
This from the same pollster that had Kerry up by 9 in VA the morning of the election in 2004......
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Well that makes it easy then doesn’t it? Just add 11 or 12 to McCain and you’ve got an accurate result.
Just remember that Zogby said that Kerry was going to get 315 electoral votes in 2004. That was his final call.
This fool needs to be put in a rubber room with babbling Dan Ratherbiased.
At least the Soviet people understood that Pravda was pure propaganda.
In order for the math to work, he would have to have had a double digit lead for Sunday polling. I’m not buying it.
“What happened to McCain by 1 point on Friday?”
==My thot exactly!
I don’t trust his polling or his predictions.
This is what I trust: Here is the poll that really counts. IBD/TIPP Daily Tracking Poll - Day 21 - The race tightened again Sunday as independents who’d been leaning to Obama shifted to McCain to leave that key group a toss-up. McCain also pulled even in the Midwest, moved back into the lead with men, padded his gains among Protestants and Catholics, and is favored for the first time by high school graduates. Link: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/series13.aspx?src=POLLTOPN - Even more importantly, is the fact that Obama has consistently been under 48% in this poll. This was the most accurate Presidential Poll in 2004.
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