Posted on 10/22/2008 7:41:34 AM PDT by hsmomx3
While picking up a handful of Republicans in McCain's home state may not seem like much, longtime pollster Bruce Merrill expects to see real changes when his surveyors start making calls later this week.
This presidential election poses a host of new challenges for pollsters - including the proliferation of cell phones and early voting. Will Arizona turn blue? Probably not, Merrill predicted, but it could be decidedly purple.
"My guess is that if I took a poll today that McCain would be ahead, maybe, but very slightly," said Merrill, professor emeritus at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism. "I think it would be a very close race."
Re: Cronkite School of Journalism
LOL!
I didn’t even think AZ was in play for McCain (notwithstanding that he is their Senator).
Hahaha.. no evidence, no facts, just one guys opinion makes a news story??? Are you kidding me.
AZ ain’t flipping, that’s comical on its face.
Wow...a polster speculating about a speculative poll he wil run in the future.
Quick...New York Times needs to make this thier lead story.
I call BS
Great example of media bias in the headline.
Doesn’t say McCain will take Arizona with large lead.
Nope, his lead is “shrinking” and obama “closes gap”.
Disgusting.
That’s why this paper went down the tubes, laid off 140+ people and is now going to publishing 4 days.
Their hard left turn, turned off subscribers (including myself), who in turn stopped receiving the paper.
Yes, that just jumped off the page and bit me, too!
Pure BS from the Obama media !
No surprise. For the last couple of decades, Arizona has had a huge influx of people from all over the country, many from California, who bring their liberal philosophy along with them and vote accordingly. I used to love Phoenix, but other than my remaining family and friends, the Phoenix I loved is gone.
Bruce has been at that same job for years!! I hope he has egg on his face come election day and same goes for the AZ Rag paper.
I wonder if they will run my story.
I plan to run a poll in California next week. I don’t exptect it to go away from the Democrats yet; however, a poll in the future may show that California is unhappy with barrack Hussein Obama and that his lead will diminish considerably. Will McCain have a chance in California? We’ll need to wait til the poll tells us, but I think he just might be able to get within striking distance.
This article is absolutely hillarious!
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE. Give me a break!
Can you believe this nonsense?
Okay, that’s just retarded.
(Apologies to the developmentally disabled of America, for comparing a pollster to them.)
That is so true. Everyone is moving here and they are mainly liberal voters.
Yet you will continue to hear the RINOs on this board continue to demand that the GOP move the left and abandon their beliefs - all while the dems become more and more like the communist party.
The only hope for our nation lies in people like Joe the plumber and Sarah Palin - the more we elect DC elitists the more we will lose our freedoms.
It is not. Shrinking lead remains a 7% lead.
May you experience the full temperature of Hades while you incinerate Mary.
Are you going to give us another article showing Oklahoma leaning Obama?
What a bunch of shills
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