McCain vs. Obama: A final round of polls

Here’s the Wall Street Journal on the new NBC/WSJ poll: “Sen. Barack Obama enters Election Day with a solid, though narrowing, lead over Sen. John McCain as both men sprint to the finish line of their long presidential race.” Here’s our writeup of the poll on MSNBC.com: “To put Obama’s eight-point edge into perspective, the final NBC/WSJ survey before the 2004 presidential election had President Bush with a slim one-point lead over John Kerry, 48 to 47 percent. Bush went on to win that election, 51 to 48 percent.” More: “‘The McCain campaign is going to have to thread the needle to pull out a victory on Election Day,’ says Republican pollster Neil Newhouse, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart. ‘The campaign is facing an uphill battle.’ Hart puts it this way: ‘The results of this survey says it is going to take more than rain, sleet or snow to derail the Obama express. He is holding all the high cards, and that is a hand that is hard to beat.’” ...( read more ) (link)