As Bill Greener argued in a Salon article ( http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/27/undecideds/ which was discussed in a FR thread recently), it doesn’t really matter so much whether McCain narrows the gap entirely. Greener believes that the undecideds will break decisively for McCain more so than they did even for Bush in 2004 because in this election a significant number of people tell pollsters they are undecided in order to avoid saying they are against Obama. Call it Bradley effect or PUMA effect or whatever you wish, but he thinks that as long as the polls aren’t showing Obama having well above 50 % of the “decideds,” he’s going to get a decided minority of the undecideds. So the fact that Obama can’t consistently break 50 %, certainly not above the margin of errror, even in these polls with their probably Rat-tilted “likely voter” projections, is good news.
Excellent!!
I also think there is another dynamic at work here, people are so enraged with the media that they want to make them look as bad as possible. They lie to them and enjoy the heck out of it!!!