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Gallup Daily: Obama 47%, McCain 42%
gallup.com - 8/9/2008
Gallup Daily: Obama 47%, McCain 42%
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Barack Obama holds a five-point lead over John McCain in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update, 47% to 42%.

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Open Left - Front Page:  Daily Tracking Polls for Saturday

Daily Kos:  Daily Gallup: 47-42

skippy the bush kangaroo:  oh poor obama, nobody likes him

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Daily Tracking Polls for Saturday
Open Left - Front Page — The daily tracking polls for Saturday directly contradict one another, with Obama up 2 in Gallup and down 2 in Rasmussen: Gallup (8/6-8/8, 2,686 RVs, MoE 2, yesterday's number in parenthesis) Obama: 47 (46) McCain: 42 (43) Rasmussen (8/6-8/8, 3,000 LVs, MoE 2, yesterday's results in parenthesis) McCain: 47 (46) Obama: 46 (47) The national trend from Pollster.com shows Obama ahead by 2.4%, although that will probably eke up slightly with the addition of the new Gallup numbers (Rasmussen's numbers from tomorrow, not today, will be ...

Daily Gallup: 47-42
Daily Kos — Back to a five-point Obama lead. McCain high water mark in the poll is still only 44. Time for the media to initiate another round of "this is good for McCain" stories, complete with unnamed nervous Dem consultant who lost in the primaries to express his or her "concern". ...

oh poor obama, nobody likes him
skippy the bush kangaroo — remember last week's slough of concern trolling wondering why obama isn't farther ahead in the polls? gallup daily: obama 47% mccain 42% it is our learned opinion that the david brooks of the beltway crowd are basically making themselves try not to feel as bad as reality dictates they ought to, by channeling maxwell smart: when it comes to mcmuffin winning the race, they missed it by that much.

Gallup Daily Tracking: Obama Ahead By 5 Percent
The Moderate Voice — ... The lastest Gallup Daily Tracking poll continues to show that neither Democratic Sen. Barack Obama or Republican Sen. John McCain has shaken up the race enough to take a significant lead — a finding notable in other polls as well. Obama has a 5 percent lead, but the race appears basically deadlocked. ...

Huffpollstrology: Candidates' Horoscopes, Polls And More For August 10
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Sources: General Election Poll: Gallup Daily Tracking The general-election results are based on combined data from August 6-8, 2008. For results based on this sample of 2,686 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points. Horoscopes: horoscopes.co.uk Weather: Weather.com Betting Lines: Intrade Prediction Markets

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