Posted on 09/06/2008 10:17:15 AM PDT by Petronski
PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama's advantage over John McCain has been shrinking since the start of the Republican National Convention, and is now down to just two percentage points -- 47% to 45% -- too close to call. This is according to Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Wednesday through Friday, Sept. 3-5.
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
For the Gallup Poll Daily tracking survey, Gallup is interviewing no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults nationwide each day during 2008.
The general election results are based on combined data from Sept. 3-5, 2008. For results based on this sample of 2,765 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points.
Sep 4: Obama +7
Sep 5: Obama +4
Sep 6: Obama +2
Thank you Sen. McCain. Thank you Gov. Palin.
The interviewing for today's report partially reflects public opinion following the highlights of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday and Thursday nights when McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, made their acceptance speeches. This includes a strong night for McCain in Friday's interviewing, the first full night of interviewing following his acceptance speech.
The Republican bounce isn't finished yet.
Here's a plain-spoken soldier with a poignant message for Mr. Obama & Co.
Rasmessen has him down by just 1% - 45% to 46%.
Just like the Tampa Bay Rays lead in the AL East. Dropping each day.
Ouch...that’s what a pair of black peeps in the crouch will do.
Those drops for Obambi are actually part of the McCain bounce, though they won’t be counted as such.
That “great” Obama speech seems like it was two months ago.
Are Democrats oversampled in this poll like they seem to be in the other major polls?
Some other FReeper said yesterday that Gallup samples Republicans at only 28%. I don't know Gallups Democratic sampling.
Sweet, and it’s a registered-voter poll, too. Flip those scores.
That an empty-suited, zero-accomplishment, never-had-a-real-job, consort-with-terror-bombers-and-radicas Marxist nutcase could be elected U.S. Senator and have as much as 46% of the American Electorate willing to vote for him is astonishing beyond words.
How could this be possible in a nation of educated, hard-working, god-fearing people?
Oh, wait ...
A poll of Wed-Thu-Fri means only one day reaction to McCain’s speech and only two days reaction to Palin’s.
Absolutely they are oversampling Democrats to almost 40% of the sample. GOP they give about 32%, independents 28%. This is based on party ID surveys that go back this entire year but do not take into account the fact that with Sarah Palin on the ticket Republicans are “coming back home” in a big way.
Thanks for the quick answer!
Should also have included you in my last post. Many thanks :)
Yeah I’ll be even more interested in the numbers early next week once the word of mouth has had time to spread around.
Good to see the Red Sox keeping up the pressure. BTW, Toronto is ahead of the D-Rays today early in the game.
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