Tied exactly to the decimal point. Bush will be back in the lead tommorow as a very pro-Kerry sample drops off.
One week to go and it can't possibly get any closer.
The latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows Senator John Kerry with 47.8% of the vote and President George W. Bush with 47.8%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern.
When leaners are included, it's Kerry 48.8% Bush 48.7. Other Candidates attract 0.7% and 1.8% are not sure (half of those who are not sure probably won't vote). Ninety-three percent (93%) of Bush voters are certain they won't change their mind. Eighty-nine percent (89%) of Kerry voters say the
Please move the decimal point out two or three more places.
I have some suspicion as to whether or not Rasmussen might "slip" some junk data in there like Saturday appeared to be so that he gets more traffice to his site and such. My liberal friend was touting the Rasmussen poll this morning as evidence Kerry was going to win big, which means his ploy (if it was one) succeeded in getting more attention.
The bottom line is, yesterday's kerry lead was nothing more than an abberation. The somewhat bad Friday result is gone as of today and that ties it up. The very bad saturday result will be gone tomorrow and that will put bush back in the lead, barring further sample problems.
If you see one poll showing a wild result when the rest are all saying otherwise, wait a couple of days for confirmation.
Before all these polls and when there was just Gallup, if candidate reached 50%, it was all good. Bush has done that on a number of occassions. Kerry has bad internals in these polls, and believe it or not, I believe the Weekly Reader poll. Those kids reflect the parents. Parents seem to be strongly for Bush.
JMHO
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