pollster.com - 11/4/2008
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First, let me take this opportunity to thank everyone at Pollster for putting together such a valuable resource. So, thanks! Second, I'd love to see Pollster--and the industry in general--adopt a new classification scheme down the road. Basically, as I see it we really need to find a way to ...
thepoorman.net - 11/4/2008
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Obama favored by electoral map
The Swamp —
... Pollster.com has one of the best websites for tracking polls and allocating states on the Electoral College map using the best available information. ...
A Pox on "The Poll of Polls"
TPMCafe —
... Enough already with these "poll of polls". CNN does it, RealClearPolitics does it, and so does Pollster. And so too will a lot of other imitators do the same thing in the next election cycle, if we just let it all slide by right now. Not on my watch. This morning, to take a conspicuous example on my home front, brought news from Pollster.com that Ohio was now back in the tossup column, based on the averaging of the latest polls, apples and oranges alike. ...
How did North Carolina end up the ultimate toss-up state? Reviewing county data
BlueNC - The people's think tank —
... only six moved toward McCain in the last two weeks of the race, and four of those were North Carolina, Virginia, West-Virginia and Pennsylvania - possibly marking a McCain push in the Appalachians. (A fifth was Florida, so you could also speculate that McCain was rebounding a bit in the South).
By election eve, polling for the race was tight as a tick: Obama 48.8%, McCain 48.4%. (Data from pollster.com: 10/20, 10/27, 11/4).
North Carolina being a race at all, nevertheless, is a testament to how ...
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