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Zogby Tracking: McCain Just 2 Points Down
« on: October 08, 2008, 11:03:47 AM »
Seems to be inconsistent with the MSM polls, but they were pretty good during the primaries. 

Zogby Tracking: McCain Just 2 Points Down

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 10:55 PM

The race for president of the United States remains far too close to call between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain as both candidates head toward the finish line, a recent Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby daily tracking telephone polls shows.

The survey, including a three-day sample of 400 likely voters collected over each of the previous three days, Oct. 5-7, shows that Obama holds a slight advantage amounting to 1.9 percentage points over McCain. The previous poll had McCain trailing by 3 points.

This represents a bit of a recovery by McCain, who had been sliding in some polls before his running mate, Sarah Palin, put in a strong performance in her one and only debate performance last Thursday.

The Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll, was conducted before Tuesday’s Obama-McCain debate. It was performed by live telephone operators in Zogby’s in-house call center in Upstate New York, included a total of 1,220 likely voters nationwide, and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.

The two candidates are doing well at attracting support from their own partisans — Obama is winning 84 percent of the Democratic Party support and McCain is winning 85 percent of the Republican Party support — but Obama has the edge among independent voters. He leads McCain among independents, 48 percent to 39 percent.

Obama wins support from a slightly higher percentage of conservative voters than McCain is winning from liberal voters, but the advantage is small.

This daily tracking telephone poll will continue each day until the Nov. 4 election, keeping in touch with the daily twists and turns in the race for the White House. The running poll of about 1,200 likely voters consists of three days of polling about 400 from each of the past three days. With each new day of polling that is folded into the poll, the oldest third of the survey is replaced with the fresh data, so the poll tracks movements and events in the campaigns.
 
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/zogby_poll_mccain/2008/10/07/138331.html

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Re: Zogby Tracking: McCain Just 2 Points Down
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2008, 11:31:55 AM »
Stop spewing your Neo Con propoganda here. We know Obama won already. If he didn't its because Palin hates rape victims and McCain hates blacks.

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Re: Zogby Tracking: McCain Just 2 Points Down
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2008, 01:25:58 PM »
 :)  Didn't Barney Frank also say attacks on the subprime fiasco were racist too?  Or something like that. 

I wouldn't count McCain out at all.  He wasn't supposed to win the Republican nomination, but here he is.   

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Re: Zogby Tracking: McCain Just 2 Points Down
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2008, 01:37:32 PM »
Again, people don't count on the race.  Its the electorial college that matters
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Re: Zogby Tracking: McCain Just 2 Points Down
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2008, 01:39:40 PM »
Zogby was way off during the primaries

The problem with Zogby and other types of pollsters is that their sample is dependent upon people who have a land lines and that segment is falling and skewed toward and older population

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Re: Zogby Tracking: McCain Just 2 Points Down
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2008, 01:41:50 PM »
Again, people don't count on the race.  Its the electorial college that matters

True, but the electoral college will do whatever their respective states do, and the polls are an indicator of the states will do.