New Gallup today Obama 45 McCain 44

[jezebel]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/109633/Gallup-Daily-Obama-45-McCain-44.aspx

Print E-mail August 16, 2008
Gallup Daily: Obama 45%, McCain 44%Result extends presidential tie reported on FridayUSA Election 2008 Gallup Daily Americas Northern America PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama is now favored by 45% of national registered voters and John McCain by 44%, essentially maintaining the tie at 44% reported in Friday's Gallup Poll Daily tracking report.




Obama and McCain have been closely matched in each the past four individual days of Gallup Poll Daily tracking, including in the Aug. 13-15 polling represented in today's three-day rolling average. Thus there appears to be a degree of stability to voter preferences in recent days. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.) -- Lydia Saad

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. After eight years of the most astoundingly (word?) absurd

administration in history..... we see these guys this close?? Unfrickingreeeeel. We may see another one of these if this country doesn't wake up out of its collective coma.

[optimisticin08]

2. We must remain positve

no matter how bad the polls may get.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Again, McCain's ceiling is 44%, which has proven to be Obama's floor.

[DCBob]

4. This little bump up is significant..

It suggests the Corsi book, McCain "pretend POTUS"/Georgian crisis, and negative attack ads have had little impact on voters. I think it is all up from here.

[Phredicles]

6. Plus Obama's been relatively out of the news this week;

I wasn't excited about his taking a vacation, but it looks like it worked out better than Kerry's similarly-timed one.

[barack the house]

9. I think people are starting to see what's for dinner and it ain't tasty re: McCain.

[Arkana]

10. It's just further proof that McCain's ceiling is Obama's floor.

And even if independents break evenly in November, we'll still win because our soft support pushes us over the top.

Folks, you're all fooling yourselves if you ever hoped for a polling blowout. It's never going to happen again--especially in this day and age, with the media as pervasive as it is. There are so many mediums for both truth and lies to reach our ears that one never rises too significantly above the other. The media folks don't know HOW to report on anything other than a horserace election--it's their bread and butter. If Obama led by 10-15 points, viewership and interest would dry up and they'd wither away. I'm almost beginning to think that the media doesn't have a pro-conservative or pro-liberal bent--they have a pro-media bent.

And a close race is not necessarily an indication that Obama's campaign is screwing up.

[Dinger]

5. Wes Clark Will Fix That (nt)

[jenmito]

7. Why can't McCain lead Obama? n/t

[barack the house]

8. What we can hold on to Obama has held a lead against all odds.