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Obama Widens Lead in Tracking Polls

by: tremayne

Sun Sep 28, 2008 at 14:22

With the addition of Saturday polling data to the 3-day rolling averages used by the four daily tracking polls, Barack Obama has widened his lead over John McCain for the third day in a row. Here's what it looks like:

Obama's lead in the tracking poll average is now 6.5 points. For a week, up until September 25, Obama led by about 3.5 points. Interestingly, the tracking polls released Sept. 26 were the first to include data from after McCain's announcement he was suspending his campaign and after people watched the Palin-Couric interview.

The trend against McCain may just be continuing or it may have accelerated after Friday night's debate. The R2K poll for DKos shows that in Saturday's sample, Obama by 9 points, 51 to 42. We'll see tomorrow if 6.5 is the new plateau or if the lead edges higher.

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Obama Widens Lead in Tracking Polls | 2 comments

Let's widen the lead (4.00 / 1)

I hope that after the VP debate, people will wake up and see how freaking scary the McCain-Palin ticket really is for this country.

John McCain's dark side fueled by obsessive ambitions (from 1999!)
http://www.mtexpress.com/1999/...

"If McCain becomes President, America will have more than a prickly president with a low boiling point. He carries grudges, fibs rather than admits mistakes, cannot endure criticism, threatens revenge, controls by fear, is consumed with self-importance.

Shifting blame also is second nature."
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Then Johnny's snarky, passive-agressive response to Barack's respectful and thoughtful letter.

http://obama.senate.gov/letter...

by: OceanDog @ Sun Sep 28, 2008 at 14:17:37 PM CDT

The polls suggest a widening lead (0.00 / 0)

that invades the space in states that traditionally go republican. Yeah! Virginia, North Carolina, perhaps Nevada and Montana. Yes, we have a chance to take them all.

(Signed: cabresch--but some on this forum don't like my comments so have blocked that account! Open access so I can post on my real account!)

by: cjabresch @ Sun Sep 28, 2008 at 16:09:41 PM CDT

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