Posted on 09/29/2008 3:44:18 PM PDT by Norman Bates
Polling this week in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia shows that Barack Obama has gained a net 3 to 5 percentage points in each state compared to the previous Fox News/ Rasmussen Reports poll.
In Pennsylvania, Obama now leads by eight percentage points, 50% to 42%.
In Virginia, it’s Obama 50% and McCain 47%.
The candidates are within a single point of each other in Colorado (Obama 49%, McCain 48%), Florida (Obama 47%, McCain 47%), and Ohio (McCain 48% Obama 47%).
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In Pennsylvania, Obama now leads by eight percentage points, 50% to 42%.
REALLY?!?
I say don’t worry! Obama needs a 15% to 20% lead in the polls to win by 2%!
To this day I will never understand poll worship.
McCain actually improved in a number of states.
Sadly, I think blame is going to (unfairly) be placed on the GOP and McCain as the stock market melts down in the coming days.
The polls didn’t “tank” late last week, except for a bogus Gallup “registered voters” poll.
I agree. These public polls are skewed. The only ones worth anything are the internal polls done by the campaigns, and those aren’t released to the public.
Didn’t the polls have Kerry leading by a larger margin then this about the same time in 2004?
improvement from last week in FLA OH CO and VA
the “net” increase comes from Penn, which is shifting back to Blue.
I am beginning to wonder about Ras....to state “net increase” is totally misleading and discouraging.
NEWSFLASH: We don’t need to win Pennsylvania.
Well, they are Rasmussen. So they are skewed to the left (rat) considerably. I suspect they over-sample rats and then add weights to further water down results. If 0bama is up by 10 he is probably within the margin of error.
Plus they don’t reflect the bailout crap.
Besides, the real poll is the election day poll.
Yes, I am pleasantly surprised!
McCain will get credit for stopping a socialistic bill.
I think we DO need to win PA.
The map looks ugly without it, especially since IA, NM and CO are proably going to Obama, with VA getting shakey.
McCain can lose all four if he wins PA.
As the markets tank 10% a day? I don’t think so.
Rasmussen is over-sampling Rats in state samples as compared to actual turnout in ‘04 and ‘06. McCain is down in PA though, but not by 8 pts.
I’d still feel better if we were 5 pts up in all polls.
>>Sadly, I think blame is going to (unfairly) be placed on the GOP and McCain as the stock market melts down in the coming days.<<
Yes - voters don’t want to elect Obama, but in the end he’ll win because of this crisis. Capitalism is on life support - he’ll pull the plug.
no, they did not
What this country needs is a LEADER. Obama most certainly is nothing of the sort. This Financial Crisis is the Golden Opportunity for McCain if he misses it say goodbye to Capitalist America and hello to the coming Socialist nightmare.
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