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CNN Poll: Race may be tightening
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 10/20/2008
CNN Poll: Race may be tightening
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Obama has a 5 point lead over McCain in the latest CNN poll. WASHINGTON (CNN) — With two weeks and one day until election day, a new national poll of likely voters suggests the race for the White House may be tightening up. In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday, 51 percent of likely voters questioned [...]
fivethirtyeight.com - 10/28/2008
What Would 'Tightening' Look Like?
— fivethirtyeight.com — There is a lot of discussion going on about whether the national race is tightening; our model... concludes that it is not. But what would meaningful 'tightening' look like in terms of the Electoral College? Let me be oddly specific here. In order to ... (more) What Would 'Tightening' Look Like?

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washingtonpost.com - 10/27/2008
Poll Gives Obama 8-Point Va. Lead
— washingtonpost.com — McCain's Image Still Linked to Bush By Tim Craig and Jon Cohen Washington Post Staff Writers Monday,... October 27, 2008; A01 Barack Obama has opened up an eight-point lead over Republican John McCain in Virginia, and the Democrat is entering the final ... (more) Poll Gives Obama 8-Point Va. Lead

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strata-sphere.com - 10/19/2008
The Slow Tightening Of The Race
— strata-sphere.com — With two plus weeks to go before voting things might finally be turning John McCain's way. I... have predicted this race would go down to the decisions made by voters on election day, and that seems to be the case. However, I am not overly confident at ... (more) The Slow Tightening Of The Race

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TPMDC:  CNN Poll: Obama Leading By Five Points; Race May Be Tightening

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Topic Free For All
Taylor Marsh — ... , which topped his homepage, he doesn’t even link to the source. I will. All in the family, Time/Warner, a poor excuse, because it happens a lot: ...

CNN Poll: Obama Leading By Five Points; Race May Be Tightening
TPMDC — ... A new national poll from CNN suggests that the race may be tightening, with Obama holding a five point lead among likely voters over McCain, 51%-46%, which is down from an eight-point lead in early October. ...

CNN Poll: Obama +5
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... New CNN/Opinion Research national survey of likely voters (Oct 17-19) shows Barack Obama's lead over John McCain is now 5 points, down from an 8-point lead two weeks ago: Obama 51 (-2 vs. last poll Oct 3-5) McCain 46 (+1) Obama leads McCain by 4.8% in the ...

The Polls - 10/20
TalkLeft — I give Gallup major props - they keep giving the RV totals with their LV models in their polling results. Their latest polling shows Obama leading among registered voters by 11 and by 9 among likely voters (expanded model). DKos/R2000 has Obama up 8, 50-42 among LVs (no RV number made available.) Hotline, IBD/TIPP and CNN have Obama by 5. Ras has Obama by 4 as does Battleground. All of these are LV numbers. Still Obama's election. By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only ...

CNN Poll: Obama's Lead Shrinks to Five Points
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — A new CNN poll of likely voters suggests the national race for the White House may be tightening up. Sen. Barack Obama leads Sen. John McCain by five points, 51% to 46%, down from an eight point edge two weeks ago. "One reason behind the tightening of the race appears to be a drop in the number of people who think McCain, if elected, will mostly carry out President Bush's policies. Forty-nine percent of those questioned in the new survey say McCain would mostly carry out Bush's policies, down from 56 percent in the previous poll."

Dueling Polls Combine To Paint A Picture
Comments from Left Field — ... Today we see a couple of polls that would seem to be in direct conflict with each other.  CNN has Obama’s lead over McCain narrowing; Obama 51 to McCain 46.  Meanwhile, today’s Gallup Daily Tracker actually has Obama’s lead growing to eleven points compared to yesterday; ...

The Blessing of Joe Biden
Neptunus Lex — ... are any are any judge - and if they could just be consistent - Barack Obama is on his way to being the 44th president of these United States. One of the best possible results of that outcome will be the Delaware senator Joe Biden will be lifted out of relative obscurity and placed in full view of pretty much everybody - not just those of us who watch C-SPAN. ...

More Evidence The Race Is Tightening
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — Behold : With two weeks and one day until election day, a new national poll of likely voters suggests the race for the White House may be tightening up. In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday, 51 percent of likely voters questioned Friday through Sunday back Barack Obama for president, with 46 percent supporting John McCain. That 5 point advantage for Senator Obama, D-Illinois, is down from an 8 point edge he held over Senator McCain, R-Arizona, in the last CNN/ORC national poll, conducted October 3-5. One reason behind the tightening of the race appears ...

More Evidence The Race Is Tightening
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Behold: With two weeks and one day until election day, a new national poll of likely voters suggests the race for the White House may be tightening up. In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday, 51 percent of likely voters questioned Friday through Sunday back Barack Obama for president, with 46 percent supporting John McCain. That 5 point advantage for Senator Obama, D-Illinois, is down from an 8 point edge he held over Senator McCain, R-Arizona, in the last CNN/ORC national poll, conducted October 3-5. One ...

10/21 Daily Kos R2K Tracking Poll: Obama 50, McCain 42
Daily Kos — ...     LV Gallup:         52 (50)    41 (42)    2         RV  See also the LV I and LV II numbers IBD/TIPP:       47 (47)    41 (42)    3.3       LV  alternate link ABC/WaPo:       53 (53)    44 (43)    3         LV  New tracking poll (10/11) CNN:            51 (53)    46 (45)    3.5   ...

Obama, McCain both predict a tighter race and a new poll confirms it
Top of the Ticket — ... tighten near the end, as Americans (including the growing numbers of early voters) confront their actual individual decisions after 22 months as political spectators. Now comes a statistical inkling that the closing is starting to occur, but in a strange way. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. Poll of 1,058 adults taken Friday through Sunday and out Monday showed Obama's 8-point lead from early October had been trimmed to five points, 51-46. But two interesting points from within the poll. It's not so much that McCain gained as that Obama slipped. ...

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