Check Rasmussen over the next few days. If he reflects what’s happening with Gallup and Zogby, then it’s real. If he doesn’t, then someone’s playing with numbers.
Also, the real proof will be state-by-state. There are many who realize that the national poll doesn’t tell what’s happening in a state, but they point out that the state’s will reflect the national consensus over time, IF the national polls have truly been randomly drawn.
If this is true, we should see McCain take the Electoral College lead. He was down only 10 and if VA, NV, and CO went his way, he would be leading.
Let’s see what happens.
This makes the debates loom enormous. If Obama comes back at McCain now agreeing to townhall type debates, then it means that Obama’s internals are saying the same thing as these polls. If you’re down, you have to take risks and get more exposure.
His going on with O’Reilly suggests that his internal polling was not looking good.
Folks....as already mentioned...this is great news...but just as Obama is dealing with this news, McCain could be dealing with the same at the end of October, early November...poll numbers also go down. We’re in a two to three week honeymoon with Palin...she will come down to earth as she displays a few flaws here and there...says a few gaffs here and there...It will take heavy and strategic campaigning efforts for McCain’s team to maintain enough of a lead to win the elections. I believe it will be close like it was during the past two elections. The demographics of our population is constantly changing..unfortunately to the democrat’s side. I will patiently wait for the polls to give me a truer idea, a week before the election.