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With 48 hours until Election Day and candidates swarming the state like mosquitoes, a new Orlando Sentinel poll suggests that the race for president in Florida remains too close to call. The poll, by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, shows Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. John McCain 47 percent to 45 percent, well within the poll's 4-point margin of error. With the race essentially tied going into the last lap, Florida's 27 electoral votes remain the biggest battleground prize for either candidate.

With 48 hours until Election Day and candidates swarming the state like mosquitoes, a new Orlando Sentinel poll suggests that the race for president in Florida remains too close to call. The poll, by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, shows Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. John McCain 47 percent to 45 percent, well within the poll's 4-point margin of error. With the race essentially tied going into the last lap, Florida's 27 electoral votes remain the biggest battleground prize for either candidate. If Obama wins here, he is virtually assured the presidency. If McCain loses, his candidacy is all but dead....

Your humble correspondent had figured the polls would start to narrow in the final week of the campaign but this stunning new Gallup poll shows the lead in the Presidential race narrowing much more rapidly than he had assumed. The latest Gallup poll of traditional likely voters shows the race has narrowed down to 49 percent for Barack Obama and 47 percent for John McCain. Here is Gallup's explanation of this poll: Gallup's "traditional" likely voter model, which Gallup has employed for past elections, factors in prior voting behavior as well as current voting intention. This has generally shown a...

Survey USA has a new poll out that takes a look at the race in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District. The poll shows the race is a statistical dead heat when you factor in the Margin of Error. 47% of those polled back DFL challenger Elwyn Tinklenberg. 44% support GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann. 6% support I-P candidate Bob Anderson. 2% are undecided. The MOE is +/-4%. This is the first poll taken since Bachmann made her controversial comments on MSNBC's Hardball last Friday. It won't be the only poll on the race. MPR will release a poll on the 6th District...

October 23, 2008 A new poll by Winthrop University and South Carolina Educational Television shows a statistical dead heat between Barack Obama and John McCain in Virginia and North Carolina. The poll gathered data from 2,026 likely voters in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina between Sept. 28 and Oct. 19. In Virginia 44.6 percent of respondents said they would vote for Obama if the election were held today, while 43.6 percent would vote for McCain. In North Carolina the numbers were almost the same, with 44.6 percent for Obama and 44.2 percent for McCain. In South Carolina McCain was...

Real' Virginians Take Another Look At McCain; Contest Tightens 2 Weeks till Votes Are Counted: In an election for President of the United States in Virginia today, 10/20/08, two weeks till votes are counted, Democrat Barack Obama defeats Republican John McCain 51% to 45%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for WDBJ-TV Roanoke, WJLA-TV Washington DC, WTVR-TV Richmond, and WJHL-TV Tri-Cities. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll two weeks ago, McCain has gained 2 points, Obama has lost 2 points. Obama had led by 10, now by 6. There is movement among men, where Obama had led by 11 but...

Election 2008: Florida Presidential Election McCain 49%, Obama 48% in Florida Monday, October 20, 2008 Email a Friend Email to a Friend The presidential race in Florida is now essentially even. The latest Fox News/Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds John McCain ahead of Barack Obama 49% to 48%. Support for the GOP nominee is at the highest level in the past five polls of the state. Last week, Obama held a 51% to 46% lead. He led by seven points in the Fox/Rasmussen poll the week before. The tighter race in Florida is consistent with national polling,...

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....

Pollsters say Democrat Barack Obama is still the national electorate’s White House favorite, but his GOP rival John McCain has the edge in at least one crucial battleground state. McCain leads Obama in Ohio by one point with 46 percent of the vote to Obama’s 45, according to an NBC/Mason-Dixon poll released yesterday. However, national polls show Obama continues to hold the lead over his opponent. Rasmussen Reports has Obama leading by six points, 51 to 45 percent, while a national Gallup poll also has Obama leading by 3 points with 49 percent. Meanwhile, a national Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll has Obama...

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- The race to secure voters is on for Democratic and Republican volunteers. This year El Paso County could determine which way Colorado swings. Nearly 374,000 people in El Paso County are registered voters, making it the second largest in the state only to Denver County which has just over 400,000 registered voters. Nearly 166,000 in the county are registered Republicans. Only just over 85,000 are registered Democrats. This becoming one of the most discussed presidential elections, and because of that we've seen registered significantly increase across party lines. But here's what's significant in El Paso County....

Obama 49%, McCain 45%. This is a 2-point bump for McCain since yesterday and a 9-point bumb since Tuesday.

3 days of internals for this tracking poll, which was the most accurate poll in 2004.

<p>Steve Corbett, a radio talk show host in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, received a copy of an internal email sent by Grant Olin (sp?) who heads the Wilkes-Barre headquarters of the Obama campaign. The email went to 627 Obama campaign volunteers in the Wilkes-Barre Scranton region, saying that Obama Headquarters reported an internal poll which shows that Obama is only 2 points up in Pennsylvania.</p>

ZOGBY WEDNESDAY: OBAMA 48%, MCCAIN 44%... DEVELOPING...

Breaking: CNN/Gallup/Rasmussen/Zogby Polls Now Show Race Tightening up RASMUSSEN MONDAY: OBAMA 50%, MCCAIN 45%... ZOGBY MONDAY: OBAMA 48%, MCCAIN 44%... Gallup: 50% to 46% (LV) CNN: Ohio Poll of polls: McCain, Obama in tight race

Good Poll News for McCain The highly accurate IBD/TIPP poll has started today with its daily tracking of likely voters. Just off the press: Obama 45; McCain 43; and 13 percent unsure.

Good news?!

There is no mistaking that Sen. Barack Obama, thanks in large part to a faltering economy, has made significant gains in the waning days before November's election. But at least one pollster is adamant that the race is far from over. "I don't think Obama has closed the deal yet," John Zogby told the Boston Herald. The latest Zogby tracking poll released Thursday showed Mr. Obama with a four-point lead over John McCain. Mr. Obama receives 48 percent of the vote and Mr. McCain receives 44 percent. The poll points out that Mr. Obama retained his lead over Mr. McCain,...

DAYTON, Ohio (October 11, 2008)—With 25 days remaining until Election Day, the economic crisis is on the minds of many Ohioans and the presidential race is in a dead heat in Ohio—McCain with 48 percent to Obama’s 46 percent, according to the second of three in-depth Ohio Newspaper Polls during this election season. Comparing the first Ohio Newspaper Poll released in mid-September to these latest figures, the new statistics illustrate how Obama is closing the gap between himself and McCain. However, 16 percent of Ohioans still remain undecided or say they “might change” their minds before Election Day, November 4....