gallup.com - 8/27/2008
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The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking average from Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday shows a race that is still close, with Barack Obama at 45% and John McCain at 44% among registered voters.
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Open Left - Front Page —
... complaining about cognitive dissonance, maybe I don't even know what I am complaining about. Right now, the best I can muster is that the convention just doesn't feel right. Although I might be dangerously treading into "I know it when I see it" territory, I knew after Gore's convention 2000 speech that he would get a bump, while I had a really bad feeling after the 2004 convention. The polling backed me up in both cases.
The tracking polls today show Obama ahead by 1 (Gallup) and behind by 1 (Rasmussen). Remember that this is after more than three days ...
Tracking Polls Show Razor-Thin Race
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... Both the Gallup and the Rasmussen tracking polls have the presidential candidates virtually tied. Gallup's Wednesday survey, which averages the results from three days, has Barack Obama leading John McCain 45 percent to 44 percent. Obama benefited from a strong day on Tuesday, which suggests that he could be getting a convention bounce, according to Gallup analyst Frank Newport . Tuesday's poll had McCain ahead 46 percent to 44 percent. It was the Republican's first lead in months. In the Wednesday ...
David Plouffe On The Race
Daily Kos —
... back: "How would we know . . . from the Gallup Daily?" The Gallup Daily is "something we don't pay attention to," he said again. Communications director Dan Pfieffer later put it more bluntly, expressing unhappiness with the "inordinate focus on bad polling" by the media and also in the routine misinterpretation of sampling noise in the Gallup Daily poll. "The Gallup Daily is the worst thing that's happened in journalism in 20 years," he said. Meanwhile, the worst thing that's happened in journalism in 20 years has Obama back on top by 1. ...
HuffPollstrology: Candidates' Horoscopes, Polls And More For September 1
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... Sources:
General Election Poll: Gallup Daily Tracking
For the Gallup Poll Daily tracking survey, Gallup is interviewing no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults nationwide each day during 2008.
The general-election results are based on combined data from Aug. 24-26, 2008. For results based on this sample of 2,724 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on land-line telephones (for respondents with a land-line telephone) and cellular phones (for ...
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