Anyone notice Obama's average national lead jumped to 7 points on RCP?

[Drunken Irishman]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html

[Dr. Death]

1. Nice

Didn't see that.

I also wish someone would post today's Gallup poll.

[JaneQPublic]

2. Yeah, that and the NPR poll about Palin. (nt)

[Hamlette]

3. it's there...Obama up by 10 (expanded) 7 (traditional) n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

4. It's a joke. A member hit POST MESSAGE when reporting the poll.

And posted it like a million times. :D

[Dr. Death]

7. Yep, shows I've spent too much time on here today.

But I've seen you here a lot today too Drunken!

[Drunken Irishman]

9. I live here during work.

I'll probably lose my job before election day. :o

haha

[Connie_Corleone]

5. New Pew poll has Obama ahead by 14 points.

RCP probably averaged that in.

[chrisclub]

6. Pew Research 10/16 - 10/19 2382 LV -- 53 39 Obama +14

Even nicer!

[OmahaBlueDog]

8. Has anyone noticed their Ohio and Florida numbers are all over the road?

Ohio

RCP Average 10/12 - 10/19 -- -- 48.3 45.5 Obama +2.8
FOX News/Rasmussen 10/19 - 10/19 1000 LV 4.0 47 49 McCain +2
Suffolk 10/17 - 10/19 600 LV 4.0 51 42 Obama +9
NBC/Mason-Dixon 10/16 - 10/17 625 LV 4.0 45 46 McCain +1
SurveyUSA 10/12 - 10/13 575 LV 4.2 50 45 Obama +5


Florida

RCP Average 10/11 - 10/19 -- -- 48.6 46.6 Obama +2.0
FOX News/Rasmussen 10/19 - 10/19 1000 LV 3.0 48 49 McCain +1
SurveyUSA 10/16 - 10/16 553 LV 4.3 47 49 McCain +2
Research 2000 10/13 - 10/15 600 LV 4.0 49 45 Obama +4
CNN/Time 10/11 - 10/14 765 LV 3.5 51 46 Obama +5
InAdv/PollPosition 10/13 - 10/13 612 LV 3.8 48 44 Obama +4

[Drunken Irishman]

10. It always is.

Which is why you should always just average the numbers like they have.

An average of the polls should give you an idea of who will win either state.

To compare, the average of Ohio & Florida in 2004 were:

Bush +0.6% in Florida.
Bush +2.1% in Ohio.

Pretty close to the actual results, eh?

[crossroads]

11. Cool! nt