LATEST polls show race WIDENING

[jenmito]

Gallup Daily: Election 2008-Obama 52% (same), McCain 41% (-1)

Gallup Daily: Likely Voters (Expanded)-Obama 52% (+1), McCain 43% (-1)

Gallup Daily: Likely Voters (Traditional)-Obama 50% (+1), McCain 45% (-1)

http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx

Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll-Obama 49.8% (+2), McCain 44.4% (-.7)

http://www.zogby.com/

And these are NATIONAL polls which are not relevant compared to state polls which ALSO show Obama's lead widening.

[JBoy]

1. The only place it's tightening is in republicans' sphincters.

[yodermon]

8. d'oh!

:spank:
:rofl:

[DevonRex]

12. That's gonna hurt when they have to bend over...

[livedemocarticordie]

20. hahaahhahah

ROFLMAO
:) :)

[roguevalley]

25. duzy!

[City of Mills]

2. I'm concerned that the race is not widening enough.

I'm series! :hide:

[StrictlyRockers]

4. The margin is wide enough that they will have a harder time stealing it this time.

[woolldog]

5. lol

:rofl:

[WallStreetNobody]

3. Should widen more in a few days when the Powell endorsement is factored in

[jenmito]

10. Yup. I look forward to it.

[NightWatcher]

6. also, more of the electoral vote counting maps have given it to Obama

http://www.270towin.com/ O:277 ev's to M:163
http://www.pollster.com/ O:313 ev's to M:157 (includes leaners to both)
http://www.zogby.com/50state/ O:273 ev's to M:163 with 102 toss ups

[jenmito]

11. Thanks. Those are GREAT numbers!

:hi:

[MarkBinPA]

7. We posted this

as well. We posted this earlier today. The MSM and Sludge Report are full of carp. There was some initial tightening last week, but that appears to have stopped and actually Obama is beginning to gain again.

http://3bluedudes.com/?p=817

Interesting this will be --- is there a small Powell bounce like Mark Halperin at Time inferred.

[jenmito]

14. Thanks for the link.

I will bookmark it. :hi:

[central scrutinizer]

9. also widening here

http://election.princeton.edu/

Obama up by over 7% for the first time. EVs have stabilized around 360

[jenmito]

15. Thanks for the link.

:hi:

[DevonRex]

13. Thank you. I needed that. :) K&R

[jenmito]

16. My pleasure! Thanks. :)

[Arrowhead2k1]

17. That's not what the "most trusted name in news" says.

No siree.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/20/cnn-poll-race-may-be-tightening/

[jenmito]

18. They're using yesterday's Gallup poll numbers. I'm using today's.

:hi:

[spanone]

21. well, they say it 'may' be tightening....and i say it 'may not' be tightening

[jenmito]

24. They're so obvious in their attempt to tilt this towards McCain. Did you notice this?:

"The CNN Poll of Polls is an average of the latest national surveys. The polls included in this newest edition are the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Survey (Oct. 17-19), a Reuters C-SPAN/Zogby poll (Oct. 17-19), a Gallup poll (Oct. 16-18) and a Diageo/Hotline survey (Oct. 17-19)."

"A Gallup poll"? Probably the "traditional model" which, from the 16th-18th, had Obama up by only 3%. In that model of TODAY'S poll, Obama's up by 5%.

[spanone]

19. this can't be true chuckie toddler and his minions told us the race ALWAYS tightens

:sarcasm:

[Overseas]

22. Oh no! What can the corporate media darlings do now?

I look forward to anti-trust regulations to break up the media conglomerates. Enough already.

So sick of the consolidation into conservative media conglomerates. Look forward to a return of the "4th branch of government," a truly free press.

[Schulzz]

23. Does anybody know when/if the ABC/WaPo numbers are released?

Their Ayers numbers looked great yesterday, but the questions 1-6 were not released.