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AP POLL-- McCain & Obama All Even!
Gateway Pundit — Thank you, Joe! Maybe America has decided it's not so keen on becoming a socialist nation after all. Breitbart reported: The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch. The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what ...

AP: OBAMA 44, McCAIN 43
Ace of Spades HQ — AP: OBAMA 44, McCAIN 43 Dead even: The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch. The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain's "Joe the ...

AP Poll: The Race is Even!
Little Green Footballs — A surprise from the Associated Press, as every other source puts Obama way ahead of McCain: AP presidential poll: All even in the homestretch. WASHINGTON (AP) - The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch. The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the ...

Shocker: McCain vs Obama - All Tied Up in Latest AP Presidential Poll
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — In a shocking new poll, the Associated Press has the Presidential race tightening. The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running ...

BREAKING: AP Poll shows Obama and McCain Basically Tied
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Obama just up by one after the third debate This basically speaks for itself WASHINGTON (AP) - The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch. It ain't over until it's over! ht Drudge ...

AP Poll Shows McCain Within One, Gains Among Likely Voters
Weekly Standard Blog — ... As always, these are polls with margins of error, and this one seems decidedly different from others recently released, but it shows gains with exactly the kind of voters who would find the Joe the Plumber's question, Obama's answer, and McCain's message pertinent: ...

Abhorrently Shocking and Racist McCain Ad
JammieWearingFool — ... and undercurrents of hatred. In other news, the race is now tied . Wait, did I just say race ? My bad. The contest . Of course, according to ...

AP Poll: McCain, Obama Statistically Tied
PoliGazette — The latest Associated Press-GfK poll shows that the race for president of the United States is tightening rapidly. According to the poll, McCain gained significantly after the third and last debate among white voters and those earning less than $50,000. So much even so, that Barack Obama lead has almost disappeared completely according to the poll: 44% say they support Obama, against 43% who support McCain. The poll is once again a sign that most pollsters have no idea what they’re doing when it comes to this year’s elections. We now have some polls saying it’s extremely close, ...

AP Poll: Obama 44%, McCain 43%
Say Anything — Wow… WASHINGTON (AP) - The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch. The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain’s “Joe the plumber” analogy struck a ...

Conflicting polls - Who’s on first?
Roger L. Simon — Watching the news these days, you would think Obama is headed for a Reagan-like landslide. Zogby seems to think so. But then an AP poll pops up with the candidates too close to call. I tend to think it’s somewhere in the middle but we all know what opinions are like… Everybody’s got one. More interesting to me as a mystery writer is this report (ht: Jamie Irons) from the Postliberal blog. Have a look.

This Election Is Not Over
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — And John McCain continues to hang around : The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch. The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain's "Joe the plumber" analogy struck a chord. Three weeks ago, an AP-GfK ...

This Election Is Not Over
RedState: Conservative News and Community — And John McCain continues to hang around: The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch. The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain's "Joe the plumber" analogy struck ...

Did the AP Fix Its Poll to Help McCain?
Comments from Left Field — Yesterday, the Associated Press’ Liz “Donuts for McCain” Sidoti published a story on the new AP poll showing Obama leading McCain by only one point - 44 percent to 43.  The headline to Sidoti’s piece falsely claimed the race was “all even” (see Kevin Drum’s explanation as to why a poll showning a lead within the margin of error is not “all even”). Drudge and numerous blogs on the Right immediately heralded the poll. My initial thought was it must be an outlier.  However, The Atlantic’s talented Mr. Ambinder has turned up a clue that ...

AP Poll: Race Tied
Politics Daily — Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, 2008 President, PollsThe polls in the presidential race have been swinging wildly as of late, with some polls showing Sen. Barack Obama pulling ahead to a big lead over Sen. John McCain while others show the race much tighter. The Associated Press poll, released yesterday falls into the latter category. The AP shows the race in a statistical tie, 44-43% for Obama.This is the second poll in recent days to show the race in a virtual flat-footed tie. The George Washington University Battleground poll, conducted by a Democratic and Republican strategist, also showed a one point ...

AP Poll Report: A 3.5-Point MOE Means a 14-Point Spread
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Associated Press lead reporter Liz Sidoti, other contributors (AP Director of Surveys Trevor Tompson, AP News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius and AP writer Alan Fram), and the wire service's supposedly vaunted editors apparently don't understand what a polling margin of error is. In a Wednesday story I found in four different places (CBS News, AP-Google, Breitbart, Yahoo! News), Sidoti et al let a paragraph stand claiming that a 3.5% margin of error in the poll results they were reporting meant that the real results could vary by as many as 14 points. Here are the key paragraphs found in each story (bold is ...

Poll Vaulting
The American Spectator — Is Barack Obama up by double digits or is this race a dead heat?  Is there an inconsistency between tightening national polls and yesterday's battleground state polls, or is it no big deal? What exactly is happening with the polls all over the place? Comparing polls these days is hardly a matter of comparing apples to apples.  There are apples, oranges, and even pineapples. To say "no two polls are alike" in methodology is an understatement. The whole host of things that pollsters do to their data -- weight it, screen it, ...

Dissecting Leftism — No Reason For Conservatives To Jump Ship By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years. I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe - neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) - yelling "Stop!" I shall have no part of this ...

TWO POLLS
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — IBD/TIPP Tracking Poll: McCain close: "McCain has cut into Obama's lead for a second day and is now just 1.1 points behind. The spread was 3.7 Wednesday and 6.0 Tuesday. The Republican is making headway with middle- and working- class voters, and has surged 10 points in two days among those earning between $30,000 and $75,000. He has also gone from an 11-point de?cit to a 9-point lead among Catholics. An analysis of Final Certified Results for the 2004 election showed IBD's polling partner, TIPP, was the most accurate pollster of the campaign season." AP presidential poll: All even in the homestretch: "The presidential race ...