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Well, actually I do. There is one, and only one, possible way that such a thing can happen mathematically. And that way, is that Gallup made major changes to the political affiliation weighting from the last week to now. Gallup has significantly increased the proportional weight of Democrat response and reduced the weight of Republican response

Well I am not going to throw the consipracy allegation out there yet, but there is definately something off on these national polls.. You can't keep showing Fauxbama losing support across EVERY demographic, yet show him gaining, just doesn't add up. I think there is something that is not being captured in these national polls, I'd really love to see the internal DNC and RNC polling... because there is NO WAY IN HELL either of them is showing Fauxbama up 5, that's beyond any sort of credibility. They clearly are not jiving with the state polling, or what's going on on the ground.. some somethings off for sure in them.

Agreed. They had to change the ratio of respondents to do it and that's dishonest. I find it hard to credit there are suddenly X number of Democrats more in the electorate than were in the previous two weeks. Party allegiance is not something people change over night. And McCain has held steady if we look at the data, with independents. So Obama's gains have to come from somewhere. Not from Gallup's own data.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

You can't keep showing Fauxbama losing support across EVERY demographic, yet show him gaining, just doesn't add up.

Maybe they are just including areas with dead democrats (graveyards) in the polls...