fivethirtyeight.com - 10/29/2008
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Stop me if you've heard this one before. Although the national trackers look slightly stronger for John McCain than they did a couple days ago, Barack Obama once again had an exceptionally good day in the state-level numbers. To review the national polling situation briefly: Gallup and ...
huffingtonpost.com - 10/28/2008
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The latest guilt-by-association target that the McCain campaign
is using to hit Barack Obama could carry some...
collateral damage for its own candidate. As Politico's Ben Smith reported on Tuesday, the McCain campaign is demanding that the Los ...
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McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To ...
redstate.com - 10/28/2008
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redstate.com —
Dan Perrin dared me to front this. Gladly.
Dan, btw, is a Republican strategist, in addition to...
writing wonky books on health care. — Erick. There are seven serious, historic, demographic and other wise culturally compelling reasons Senator ...
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The Seven Reasons McCain-Palin Are a Lock to Win
article.nationalreview.com - 10/28/2008
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"It's Always Darkest Before . . . "
Swampland —
... McInturff is looking at internal numbers. We in the outside world are left with public numbers. Nate Silver summarizes today's national numbers this way: "Gallup and Research 2000 moved toward McCain, and IBD/TIPP moved toward Obama; the other five trackers were essentially flat. Among the one-off national polls, Pew and ARG moved toward Obama, and Ipsos moved toward McCain." ...
10/29 Daily Kos R2K Tracking Poll: Obama 50, McCain 44
Daily Kos —
... graph from last night, which is exactly where R2K is. As we saw yesterday, the slight McCain uptick is more prominent than the Obama downtick, and frankly, it is hard to see how McCain could not have an uptick. McCain isn't coming in on 11/4 at 42-43%, and certainly not the 38% that Pew has him at, but that doesn't mean they are wrong about Obama's number. Obama's 49-53 range is more consistent than McCain's 39-46 in the polls. Nate's version of things from yesterday's poll analysis: Stop me if you've heard ...
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Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com —
... Let's say that in reality, McCain and Obama are 50-50 in Ohio. Now, a poll can lean a few points either way based on sample bias or error or whatever, but even if it's 48-52 McCain or vice-versa, the point is still clear: this is a close race that both candidates need to campaign in Ohio to address. Now, a majority of polls currently have Obama up by an average of over five points in Ohio. It's of no benefit to either candidate for that to be wildly inaccurate. Yes, it implies that McCain needs to do more work in Ohio than he needs to, but conversely it also claims that ...
Groundhog Day
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Nate Silver on yesterday's polling: Stop me if you've heard this one before. Although the national trackers look slightly stronger for John McCain than they did a couple days ago, Barack Obama once again had an exceptionally good day in the state-level numbers. ...
What the hell is going on?
The Reaction —
... As Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight noted, though -- and he does this on a daily basis -- "Obama once again had an exceptionally good day in the state-level numbers" yesterday. Even the national polls were pretty much even, some moving to McCain, some moving to Obama, some remaining flat. Nate also ...
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