Gallup Daily: Presidential Contest Remains a Dead Heat

[RedSpartan]

Source: Gallup

PRINCETON, NJ -- The Sept. 13-15 Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain (47%) and Barack Obama (46%) locked in a close contest when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the election were held today.

Read more: http://www.gallup.com/poll/110416/Gallup-Daily-Presidential-Contest-Remains-Dead-Heat.aspx

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Yes, Gallup is skewed toward McPalin. All the more reason that its results recently are good news. McPalin's bounce is clearly gone, and if Gallup has it essentially tied, you can bet that Obama is ahead by at least a few points. I take this as good news, and expect to see an Obama lead even in Gallup within the next couple of polls.

[McCamy Taylor]

1. What steps are Dems taking to counter GOP voter suppression in battlegrounds states?

The poll does not reflect that, and it can affect close races?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. I'm glad Va. is in honest democratic hands

and we don't have to worry about a Blackwell/Harris type there

[fjc]

2. It is hard to imagine, with the economic catastrophe unfolding,

that we will not see the polls shift substantively toward Obama.

[alfredo]

3. The trend looks in our favor.

[DeeDeeNY]

4. It just doesn't seem possible that it should even be close

How did McLame even get a convention bounce? How could any reasonably intelligent voter have seen the Democratic convention and then the Rethuglican convention, with the lying and trash talking, and not immediately have made up their minds for Obama? How could any normal person look at Palin and not get scared to death that this person could be a heartbeat away from the Presidency of a 72-year old man not in the greatest of health? Something just doesn't add up.

[jaybeat]

7. It is NOT possible. It is a LIE to set the stage for election theft. Again.

Just like it was and is not possible for the exit poll results to be "wrong" in 2004. It was and is the "official" vote counts that are infinitely more likely to be wrong. Of course, if Obama is polling +5, +10, or +15 points over McLame, in state after state, and then the "voters" "surprise" us by electing McSame, then, well, that might be a bit of a hard sell, especially when the American Sheeple are seeing their retirement savings, homes, jobs, health care, etc., go up in flames due to the policies of McBush that McSame is going to continue.

As long as Gallup and the like show the election "too close to call" then it will be close enough to steal.

With 11 million new Democrats registered and record-breaking fundraising, I still have hope that the landslide will be too big to fudge.

'Course, for Bush, Dick and McFlip, there's always "Plan B"...

:nuke:

:scared:

[scytherius]

5. Why these polls are USELESS

One reason . . . they ask "if the election were held today". It forces those that haven't really made up their mind to make up their mind. Trends are somewhat important and polls are only relevant a couple days before election day. Add to that the fact that none of them take into account Dem registration and the primary turnouts and use the 2004 paradigm. Why people are getting all in a twist over these polls is beyond me.

[kay1864]

6. S N O O Z E!

*yawn* Hey Gallup? Check with me next week, after the normal post-convention bounce dies down. Right now, it's not news.

(Oh, Obama's convention bounce? Seems the pollsters forgot to measure it, they were so busy wetting their pants over Caribou Barbie.)

Oh and then check with me the following Monday, after Obama wipes the floor with McCain in the first debate...

[santamargarita]

8. Can we stop putting anything from these lying bastards up?

It's more right-wing bullshit!