[TalBlack]

“This is good news but until McCain takes a sustainable lead however small, I am going to feel ill at ease.”

The thing about those small leads though is that they are susceptable being erased via cheating. Call me cynical or a doom and gloomer but I have every confidence that the Dems are pulling out all the stops in the voter fruad handbook this year. I expect M&P to be ahead(lets say 4% or better on average)in all polls going in only to lose a “squeaker”.

I just don’t think the Dems can stand (psychologically and otherwise)to lose this year, so it’s NOT gonna happen.

[Hattie]

Here's my take on polls. It is financially expedient to both campaigns for polls to be close. Donations increase, people buy yard signs, t shirts etc. It keeps people engaged and especially increases media ratings. Pollsters make more dough, websites are busy, Congress is ignored and can do what they want.

In short, close polls keep all the money rollin' in. A day or two before the election, they start to get more real. This year is so interesting, I expect the lead to go back and forth without any degree of accuracy just for the $$ of it.