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Sorry, Jim, the PUMAs are Dead
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — ... is now reflected in any number of polls. In fact, six of the eight trackers that published today included the support that each candidate is winning within his respective party. Let's take a quick look at those figures: Support within own party: Pollster DEMS GOP Rasmussen 86 87 IBD-TIPP 88 83 Research 2000 87 89 ABC/Post 91 84 Zogby 87 84 Battleground 89 85 AVERAGE ...

McCain going for broke in Pennsylvania?
Hot Air » Top Picks — McCain going for broke in Pennsylvania? posted at 1:18 pm on October 21, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly So says the Washington Times .“He’s 13 points behind in the state polls, Obama’s outspending him 4-to-1, Obama has a huge field organization that he can’t begin to touch, and the race hasn’t tightened in a week. Did I miss anything?” said Terry Madonna, director of Pennsylvania’s Franklin & Marshall College Poll… One of [McCain's] senior advisers said recently that not all is lost in Pennsylvania.“We’re seeing very different poll numbers,” the adviser said. “We’re not seeing double ...

TPM Track Composite: Obama's Lead Expands Again
TPM Election Central — Here's our daily composite of the six major national tracking polls. Barack Obama continues to lead John McCain by a healthy margin, with a slight dip in McCain's support today: • Gallup: Obama 52%, McCain 42%, with a ±2% margin of error, compared to a 52%-43% Obama lead yesterday. • Rasmussen: Obama 50%, McCain 46%, with a ±2% margin of error, unchanged from yesterday. • ABC/Washington Post: Obama 53%, McCain 44%, with a ±3% margin of error, the same as yesterday's numbers. This is the second day of the ABC/WaPo tracking poll, and the first day we're ...

Today's Polls, 10/21
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — After some incremental improvements by John McCain over the course of the past week, we are now looking once again a handful of polls showing Barack Obama with a double-digit lead -- most dramatically his 14-point advantage in the latest Pew poll ...

HuffPollstrology: Candidates' Horoscopes, Polls And More For October 22
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Sources: General Election Poll: Zogby The three-day rolling average poll includes 1,214 likely voters nationwide, surveyed at the rate of 400 interviews per day and was conducted Oct. 18-20, 2008. It carries a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percentage points. Interviews were conducted using live telephone operators in Zogby's in-house call center in Upstate New York Horoscopes: horoscopes.co.uk Weather: Weather.com Betting Lines: Intrade Prediction Markets ...

THE GOP AND THE ‘DEAD PARROT’ SCENARIO
Right Wing Nut House — At the risk of being seen as “not helping” John McCain and “giving up,” allow me to take you on a little tour of the electoral battlefield today. If there are any sharp objects within reach, I suggest you move them. Better yet, put them under lock and key. I am about to crack open the gates of hell and give you a peek at what’s inside. As “The Dead March from Saul” plays on my headphones, I am forced to report that John McCain is approaching “Dead Parrot” ...