Posted on 09/12/2008 3:25:28 AM PDT by NCDragon
Maybe political conventions don't matter.
That seems to be the conclusion from Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, and the conservative Civitas Institute, which both released new poll results this week.
Officials with both groups said their latest polls showed that the presidential candidates got little or no bounce with North Carolina voters as a result of the recent national conventions.
The Civitas poll shows that Republican John McCain was the choice of 43 percent in a survey of 600 registered voters and that Democrat Barack Obama was the choice of 42 percent. When leaners were included, McCain's numbers were 47 percent, and Obama's were 44 percent.
Both were within the margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
Those figures are similar to findings released earlier this week by PPP. Its survey of 626 likely voters found that McCain was the choice of 48 percent, while Obama was the choice of 44 percent. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsobserver.com ...
RCP has four September polls showing McCain ahead in NC. Two of the polls show him leading by double digits. Much like Indiana, any hope that Obama had of flipping NC is gone by now.
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