Posted on 10/20/2008 12:31:23 AM PDT by OPS4
McCain now trails Obama by 2.7 points, down from the 3.9 point deficit he faced 24 hours earlier.
Seven-point-one percent of the likely voters surveyed said they remain undecided.
Obama lost five-tenths of a point from yesterday's report, while McCain gained another six-tenths of a point. It was the third consecutive day in which Obama's numbers slipped and McCain's numbers increased.
McCain has once again moved above 45% support overall, a mark he has not seen since the second day of daily tracking reports. Obama's slip under 48% support is the first time at that level in nearly a week. He now stands within one-tenth of a percent of where he stood when the Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby daily tracking began almost two weeks ago. McCain is within two-tenths of a percent of where he was when the tracking poll began.
(Excerpt) Read more at zogby.com ...
yesterday’s poll
Thank You Joe!!!
It is the latest POll zogby shows
Joe is my hero! Mccain better give him a job when he becomes Pres.!
Since most people do not hear real news, can we all please contact 10 people today and ask them to look at Free Republic....then ask them to pass that name to 5 other people.
You have to bring it up in conversation...I saw that McCain is up by....or I heard Obama was close to Ayers and there is a video....When they ask where did you hear that....
GO TO FREE REPUBLIC!!! bECAUSE ONCE THEY START THEY ARE HOOKED...LIKE US!!!
Joe was great on Huckabee!!!
We cant let Joe die down....He was the best thing that could have happened right now.
Keep talkin’ Joe!
We have two weeks to open the eyes of those in the hypnotic trance of Barack Obama......It has got to be good!
I am waiting for the you know what to hit the fan....I know something is cooking.....I hope it is early this week.
However, see:
UTICA, New York – Democrat Barack Obama has opened a 5.4-point lead over Republican John McCain in the race for president...the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby daily tracking poll shows.
Obama now leads McCain 49.8% to 44.4%. McCain trailed Obama by 2.7 points in polling released yesterday.
He closes in more than a point in 24 hours? That sounds big - not that I am watching the polls. :)
Is this today’s or yesterday’s? I thought I read somewhere here(middle of the night) that Monday’s Zogby showed a big move to Obama 49-43?
It’s yesterday’s release. The lead for Zero doubled to 5.4
Powell bounce?
Survey manipulation (weighting) to suppress the vote for one side, and encourage it for another.
While a national poll gives some idea of the sentiment of the “nation-as-a-whole” it is not the electoral, state-by-state answer that actually determines the election.
When a national poll is within the margin of error, it automatically should send the message that this defaults to the electoral college.
In that a national poll’s attempts to balance its random sample by state, any numbers from a huge state that is o overwhelmingly in one camp or the other will skew the poll in favor of their candidate. This is the case with Calif and New York. The odds of finding a conservative democrat in those states is remote. The odds of finding a liberal republican are great. Their size means they get a lot more representation in the poll than do other states.
Seems like everybody is picking up on the tightening of the campaign except the idiots at Gallup.
bmflr
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