I'm not so sure I buy into that "McCain supporters were in church" explanation. I do buy into the ongoing financial news helping Obama because, well, they did. You can track Obama's recent poll bump to the day that Lehman announced it was about to declare bankruptcy (a week ago Sunday, Sept. 14). My sense is that once Congress resolves this financial bailout mess, this issue will stop working for Obama and McCain will recover all or most of his pre-September 14 small lead among registered voters (translating into a slightly larger lead among likely voters).
Your comment is my IMHO it was pretty brilliant of the Old Guy to indicate he was not going to debate until this was resolved. The Media and the Rats would love to drag the malaise out as long as possible.
“I’m not so sure I buy into that “McCain supporters were in church” explanation.”
I might be mis-remembering (is that a word?), but I do think I read that if dems want to skew polls their way this is one of their methods. If they called during a 3- or 4-hour window on Sunday mornings, depending on time zones, they would get less imput from religious voters. It actually makes a lot of sense.