You’re absolutely right. I was watching Meet the Distressed as I typed, and they were mentioning Gallup and I got my wires crossed. Mea culpa.
It’s understandable. BTW, from my perspective, the best place to go is the polling page on “realclearpolitics.com.” It gives both the polls in order of date, and the composite. Now, you can cherry pick and take the “most recent” polls that you like and take the composites where McCain leads, but if you are consistent, McCain still trails slightly both in national #s and in the EC. The good news is that prior to the Dem convention, the trend was with him, and that (here I go, cherry picking) if you take MOST of the most recent polls, McCain was at about 260 EVs.