Posted on 10/19/2008 4:02:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican John McCain continued a slow advance on Democrat Barack Obama in the race for president, moving back within three percentage points as the race begins to head down the stretch run, the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby daily tracking poll shows.
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. He now stands within one-tenth of a percent of where he stood when the Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby daily tracking began almost two weeks ago. McCain is within two-tenths of a percent of where he was when the tracking poll began.
During the 13 days of the tracking poll, Obama has led by as much as 6.2 points and as little as 1.9 points.
Except for a few hours of polling, this three-day rolling average of telephone polling now includes a sample taken entirely after the final presidential debate last Wednesday.
The tracking poll includes 1,211 likely voters across the country who were surveyed between Oct. 16-18, 2008, at the rate of about 400 per day. The survey, conducted using live telephone interviewers calling from Zogby's call center in Upstate New York, carries a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percentage points.
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“It was the third consecutive day in which Obama’s numbers slipped and McCain’s numbers increased. “
Good news!
“It was the third consecutive day in which Obama’s numbers slipped and McCain’s numbers increased. “
Good news!
Barack the Redistributor.
many in the media are not even mentioning this now and yet if they did spread the wealth comment then he obama would be down more
lets not forget that Odinga, birth certificate, use of tax money infact the list is endless
listening to the media you would think obama has already won
MAKES ME SICK THE MEDIA DOES
Looks like Zogby is an outlier. Rasmussen, Gallup, and others are heading back in the other direction. Sigh ...
Yes.
And Colin “Judas” Powell’s racist endorsement might actually help McCain/Palin.
Forget the polls. They are manipulative. At this point the answer is to Pray and Work for it.
So
Pray And Work for it!
Thank you for this. I’m so tired of the media saying this race is over with two weeks left and McCain withing 3-5 points.
It’s all about turnout, and how the undecideds break.
This can’t be true. The MSM tells us that O is leading by 11 points and is almost certain to win in a landslide.
But But Obama is up by 14,, uhh by 10 ..
developing, as one netpundit says
get ready for a crazy last 2 weeks
We can always count on you. Sigh...
Oh but it’s over...remember because PRAVDA told me so
If you listen to PRAVDA Montana is in jeopardy.
Obama loves me this I know
for my PRAVDA tells me so
Little ones to Him belong
they are weak but He is strong.
Yes Obama loves me
Yes Obama loves me
Yes Obama loves me
my PRAVDA tells me so.
And clearly that is why they only speak of Luntz and Rassmussen on MSM at this point. Thanks for posting a fresh perspective.
Great! Hope it keeps up. Can’t wait for a 527 to bust loose a Rev Wright or James Cone ad series.
Maybe they do not want us to vote if we think the race is over!
Joe the plumber plus the fact that the Wall Street panic isn’t news anymore, I think. McCain lost 2 or 3 weeks because of the financial crisis - now he’s making back that lost ground behind the growing public realization that Obama will mean higher taxes.
Polls are guesses. With all the data manipulation done to come up with the numbers, there is absolutely no statistical meaning to them. Educated guesses, but still guesses.
Just vote!!!
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