Freefall!
Help me out here. How did this become McCain campaign “sliding,” “imploding,” and other hyperventilated claims of allegedly stunt-prompting disaster in recent days. Gallup, three-day average shows 3-point gain for Obama.
Obama’s current three percentage point advantage, while not significant, is a return to his slight frontrunner positioning of the past week, after slipping back to a tie with McCain at 46% in Thursday’s Gallup Poll Daily tracking report. These small shifts in candidate support levels could be just random fluctuations given the survey’s margin of error, or could reflect public reaction to the many momentous news items coming out of Washington and Wall Street.
OK, I know they say Obama ended up performing as well or better than he polled in the primaries. I still don’t think it’s going to work in the general. We’ll see what happens in the debate tonight. But barring a major ball-drop by McCain tonight or in the weeks to come, I also think middle America will get who has their best interest at heart at home and abroad.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:41 pm on Friday, September 26, 2008
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September 27th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I think a lot of people, particularly in the swing states, planned on voting for Kerry right up until they went to the polls in 2004, sometimes right up until it came time to “pull the lever” - but couldn’t do it, and voted for Bush instead. I base this purely on anecdotal evidence, but I still believe it to be true. I think it’s possible that this year will be similar.