[NittanyLion]

Well within the margin of error.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

When does anyone get sick of reading about Kerry narrowing the gap?

[Bubbatuck]

Don't believe it. Everybody I know is voting for Bush. He'll get over 60% on Tuesday. The socialists are just messing with us.

[finnman69]

Kerry had a good day of polling Friday. Still, I rather be up than down.

[Raycpa]

Almost no undecideds left.

[zook]

Remember, the "weekend effect" is not caused by people changing their minds. It's caused by sampling bias.

[GEC]

No offense, but, you thought that a holiday weekend with the loss of DST would result in the LOSS of a weekend effect?

If anything, it's accentuated.

Focus on Tuesday. In spite of all the early voting, it's still the only day that counts...

until Kerry sues and then we have to battle the courts.

[VadeRetro]

I can't find anyone who still thinks it's going to be close. I sure don't.

[stopillegalimmigration]

Pollsters and MSM attempting to turn our elections into "reality TV" through creative editting.

[mk2000]

come on we all knew the MSM was not gonna allow a poll showing the Pres out to any kind of a lead. Monday and Tues morning polls will show a dead heat.

[ambrose]

I can't wait to see the numbers for polls taken on Halloween, when parents are out taking kids trick or treating...

I think the poll consensus after this weekend is going to be "too close to call".

[Gustafm1000]

According to abcnews.com bush was .2 away from being at 50% today and that today's results were only negligibly different than yesterday's... only slight changes...

[Darkwolf377]

Hasn't it occured to everyone that these polls are so volatile because they are random samplings of how people feel at the moment? I'm not saying they don't matter, but look at the RCPolitics listing of polls--they're awash in Red (Bush) leads. The trend is far more important than these up and down numbers.

[dawn53]

Am I wrong in thinking that a head to head national poll has no significance at all this late in the game?

[Paraclete]

When we look back on this election, we will find that the MSM did everything possible to keep Kerry in the race.

Our local "red rag," the Des Moines Register has been doing this for years -- short changing the Republican vote.

[infohawk]

If there is a tendency for republicans too under-sample in weekend polling data, it would be for any weekend. The theory is that republicans are out doing things with their families, etc., while democrats spend more time at home. This would be no different on the weekend following the election. The Washington Post poll has been back and forth for some time. It swings toward Kerry and then back to Bush again. I'm actually pleased Bush is still up. He has a lead in almost every national poll. Even though its close in the polls, I'd rather be us. It may very well be that the polls won't show any significant movement either way. When the polls are averaged, the Bush lead has been a remarkably stable 2-3 points for some time now. I think Bush will go into the election somewhat ahead in the polls. The ground game will be very important. Bush could win big if the electorate produces "security moms" and "9-11 democrats."

[pissant]

Don't sweat it. Bush 44 states, Kerry 6+DC on November 2. Cheers

[Antoninus]

FORGET THE POLLS! Do something instead:

Democrats for Bush Flyer -- Print it, copy it, distribute it

[Soul Seeker]

I think my tolerance for mood swings generated by polls is rapidly approaching an end.

Let's see-

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday

Three more days of polling hysteria. Should start a hourly countdown till its blessed end.

[Gunder]

At this point, tracking polls are nonsense. We've gotten our October surprise, people have made up their minds. Kerry always goes up on the weekends anyway. I'm thinking about just staying off FR and TV until Tuesday night.

Bush has this wrapped up, people. Feel good.