Posted on 10/17/2008 6:47:43 AM PDT by tatown
Obama 49%, McCain 45%. This is a 2-point bump for McCain since yesterday and a 9-point bumb since Tuesday.
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I’ll take it!
I think that the debate results are going to take a few days more than usual to be reflected in the polls. The MSM is spinning an Obama win, but once the sound bites from the debate makes its way around, McCain should see a delayed bump. It’s too bad that a lot of Americans didn’t see McCain’s speech at the Al Smith memorial dinner. What a classic!
What is in the sauce? 800 DEM 3 REP AND 2,500 “IND”
encouraging
LOL. The “oh, Gallup has it as +2 among likelies?” poll.
These pollsters are such frauds.
Hang in there folks. It ain't over yet.
This poll had McCain down 13 a week ago. Now its 4. Some CYA?
Dear God in heaven,
Please let this mean what I think it means.
But AP pollsters say people are getting disillusioned about McCain. They have scientific poll results with scientific weighting. How could this be? /sar
Many have said “as long as we are within 5” so lets take a look at the latest polls:
Rasmussen Tracking 10/14 - 10/16 3000 LV 50 46 Obama +4
Reuters/C-Span/Zogby Tracking 10/14 - 10/16 1210 LV 49 44 Obama +5
Hotline/FD Tracking 10/13 - 10/15 817 LV 49 41 Obama +8
Gallup Tracking (Traditional)* 10/13 - 10/15 2143 LV 49 47 Obama +2
Gallup Tracking (Expanded)* 10/13 - 10/15 2312 LV 51 45 Obama +6
GW/Battleground Tracking 10/10 - 10/16 800 LV 49 45 Obama +4
IBD/TIPP Tracking 10/11 - 10/15 825 LV 45 42 Obama +3
Almost identical to Scott Rasmussen’s poll.
We are well within striking range. and McCain is starting a surge.
Or people are beginning to see how frightening the supporters of Barack Obama act. If you wear a Palin shirt you stand a chance of being attacked.
I think +4 is essentially a tie. Just wait for the RNC’s $160 million shock and awe carpet bombing to start.
Was it just me or did Mr. McCain seem like he was a little more warmly received than Mr. Obama?
The polls -- commissioned, after all, by media outlets -- are designed to extract the most advertising dollars from both campaigns. Presidential elections are the political Super Bowl for the MSM, and political advertising differs from the run-of-the-mill since it has to be paid for in advance. It's cold, hard cash for a media sorely in need of it.
So you bet they'll make it look close until the bitter end, on occasion showing one candidate or the other building a lead so the other candidate increases his advertising buys.
These polls are all about money for the Drive-Bys.
I'd add that as the election grows closer, and the MSM and their hired pollsters decide they've wrung every last dollar out of this thing, the polls will begin to more clearly reflect reality, in order to maintain the polling firms' reputations.
Isn’t it ironic that Nixon’s “plumbers” allowed Carter I while a plumber may have assisted McCain in preventing Carter II from being elected?
that is true. I believe we are running into a “silent majority” situation. and nobody knows exactly what will happen in the secure confines of the voting booth.
A 9 point bump in a week? Either these folks are seriously trying to correct an anomaly or the Johnny’s closing fast.
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