The latest CNN Poll of Polls shows Obama's lead over McCain dropping by 2 points.(AP PHOTO)
(CNN) - A new average of the most recent national polls suggests Sen. Barack Obama holds a 6-point lead over Sen. John McCain.
The CNN Poll of Polls, compiled Friday morning, indicates that 49 percent of Americans say Obama, D-Illinois, is their choice for president, with 43 percent backing McCain, R-Arizona. Eight percent of those questioned are undecided.
Watch: Polls show Obama is leading McCain
The previous edition, compiled Thursday, indicated Obama had an 8-point lead over McCain, 50-42 percent.
This edition of the CNN Poll of Polls averaged four surveys: an American Research Group poll conducted October 11-13; a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby survey taken October 13-16; a Gallup poll conducted October 13-15; and a Diageo/Hotline survey taken October 13-15.
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Cue the Democrats panicking... just like they did when Palin was picked for VP.
This poll tells that we need to get out and VOTE EARLY, VOTE EARLY every day we vote is another in the tank for Obama/Biden 08/12
Polls mean absolutely nothing!!!!!! When will the people understand that the liberal press manipulate these polls.
Please America, for the sake of your own wellbeing and the rest of the world, please don't make the same mistake as the past 8 years and choose Sarah Palin for president (because that is who you're really electing with a 35% chance that McCain will not survive a first term) – please think clearly, there is a need for a stable and unifying president in your country!!
Good. We do not need to increase taxes in a time when everyone is hurting. Please read about other great depressions in American history before bashing my comment. Huge government spending and spreading the wealth around is the "new economics" that Herbert Hoover spoke of and what ultimately spiraled us into the great depression of the 1930's.
In his 2002 biography, Worth the Fighting For, McCain says this about himself:
McCain: “I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. . . . In truth, I’d had the ambition for a long time.”
HELLO PEOPLE! WAKE UP!
Gallup changed its model to only those voters who have voted in the last two elections. No new registrations????? No cell phone voters???? Only fifty somethings are going to turn out???? This is another attempt to lie to us.
This is just the start of a big swing......
What took so long? Hopefully Obama's accendency will go into the abyss of descent.
Obama wants to tax not only us good middle of the roaders, but now he wants to tax "Joe the Plumber." Now that is just not the American Way. You just don't tax "Joe the Plumber." You can tax my neighbor and the banker down the road, but you just don't tax "Joe the Plumber!"
I am amazed that Joe's plight is highlighted by no less than "His Emminence" himself. This Chicagoan, on an ego trip has tripped up "major league" by telling Joe he was going to raise Joe's taxes, so that he can give it to the Welfare Queens.
I am amazed. Why would you want to tax anyone during this financial crisis?
The Silent Majority is beginning to speak. For those who counted McCain out, remember, the game isn't won until it is actually played. Game time is November 4. Ask the Patriots how being the overwhelming favorite worked out against the Giants in the Super Bowl.
Well of course it did. All of McCains negative ads are paying off. The media will nto stand up to Mccain and Palin and ask for interviews. The Plummer did more interviews then Plain has. If Palin can not do REAL interviews then she should not get airtime or space on the ticker. CNN, they will not do interviews with you but you still report on her.
Which poll should I belive, I was just reading yahoo and they said Obama is up in the poll and I turm to yours and he is down.
Please don't start the public manipulation of media polls to make it even appear as if John Mccain is coming back. Obama supporters, we need to come out in droves to dispell any glimpse or appearance of a comback. Early vote today!
Obama/Biden 08
this race will be close but Obama will win!!!
Stupid people. If John McCain wins, this country deserves every bad thing that happens. After partaking in one of the most informed election cycles ever, after McCain's performances at the debates, his hate mongering at rallies, and refusal to bring the issues but only negativity...Good luck America.
Obama '08
They're both corrupt losers. It's time for a new American Revolution. The federal government has failed us and we need to clean house.
Zogby and Gallup are traditionally conservative, not surprised. I take this average with a grain of salt.
It's important to get out the vote. Your future and your 401K depend on it!
And it's going to get a lot closer between now and November 4. If McCain gets it down to a 4 point difference on election day I truly believe he'll take it.
The combination of Senator McCain spelling out the specifics of his economic plan while Obama's character continues to come under increasing scrutiny, will be the difference along with Americans who want to keep Democracy rather than turn to Socialism.
Have you noticed, that since the last debate, all the news organizations talk about is McCain and his policies. They want this to be a tight race, it makes for better headlines. I might as well just watch FoxNews.
I still have a strategy for the Middle East that can stabilize militarly the region for 30 years , reduce the price of oil imports, produce more work for Americans and gives us time to become energy independent.
.But until no idiot politician is willing to listen.
Well.here we are only a couple of weeks for the elections, and things are still floating undecided.
I want to help my fellow men.
Dominick
National polls. I mock you.
Senator McCain, please find your dignity again. We could all use that.
BALONEY.... enough with these stupid polls
still don't care for your polls. People please get out and vote for Obama/Biden, so we can wrap this puppy up.
The repugs will lie, cheat and steal anything they want if we allow them to do it. We must not allow this to happen this time or any other time in the future.
I listened to cnn say that no one said kill him~ look back into your archives and you will see that when palin (i won`t dignify her by calling her governer) held the rally in pennsylvania I listened and HEARD someone in the audience say kill him.. please look back and correct your statement!!!!!!!! this rally totally turned me off palin and I am a woman and a republican.
So typical for American polls. Until the election day it will be a poll tie and afterwards one candidate will win by a high margin. So much about polls.
We all knew it was going to be a tight race.. Obama will win by 1 or 2 points.. but who cares.. as long as he WINS!!
They both make me want to vomit. When will we ever elect someone with character who is actually thinking of the welfare of the nation instead of their own self aggrandizement?
The McCain attacks are paying off for him. It's a sad situation when people become animals and believe outright lies and false innuendo against another American. The past 8 years have turned people into hate mongering fiends that have lost their sense of decency.
McCain and Palin should be ashamed of the hate they're spreading, and the media should be more ashamed for playing their hatefilled lies and untruths.
John McCain and Sarah Palin will get my VOTE because I am voting for experience and a man/woman who've devoted their time to pushing the envelope.
Obama while educated is an unknown; what we do know about him is sketchy at best, his record is very liberal when he's taken the time to actually vote. Since his time in Chicago, he's developed and burned bridges with some of the country's most interesting to say the least characters. I think this questions an examination of his character and judgement.
At the end of the day, I want a proven hero to be leading the best country in the world, America! John McCain is that man, he's ready to be president.
McCain/Palin '08!!
I dont think two points indicates much. And obviously, there are many Obama supporters out there, who polled, will decline to say their vote is for Obama simply because they don't want their fellow supporters to stay home come Nov 4th, and take for granted that they don't need to vote!
I am happy to hear this news and I hope it's going to send a strong signal to Obama supporters, that if they want to send Obama at the White House, they need to double their impact and DONATE to his campaign!
these things fluctuate all the time. Its impossible to ask 1000 something and, by those responses, figure out what 120,000,000 are going to do. Stick with the state polls because that gives u a much better representation.
It's American destiny, president Barrack Hussein Obama, in the tradition of our founding-fathers such as George Washington, John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln. Joe Biden is cocky, and I miss Hillary Clinton, and regret Democrats did not vote for her during the primary season.
Polls basically stink. Like our economy that the Republicans have trashed with eight years of De Regulation by Bush and strongly supported by McBush.
baloney. only cnn seems to think mccain has a snowball's chance in hell. i'm sorry if the next two weeks won't provide the news with any real drama, but pretending that mccain is catching up is just mendacious.
McCLOWN will go down in History as the GOP Presidential candidete who SOLD his MAVERICK SOUL in order to appease the most conservative Republican voters and, by doing so, he MORFED from a maverick McCain into a (Mc)CLOWN
here comes the expected narrowing of the polls to keep ratings up after the debates. Seriously, by most accounts people thought Obama won the debate, was more likable, more presidential, yadda yadda yadda. And I don't care if there were more Democrats in the polls, it wasn't enough to skew things to the point it is being driven by the Dems. Yet, he's dropping in the polls. What's the matter media? Afraid we are going to stop watching your programming for the next two and a half weeks?
Obama supporters remember...............THE RACE ISN'T OVER YET!!!! THE FINISH LINE IS NOVEMBER 4TH!
Polls mean nothing to me anymore! I believe that America will use good judgement and make the responsible choice no matter what party they belong to.
Carl said it best, " I dont' care if you are a liberal or conservative.
ACORN is dirty and about 90% of us already know this. They are willing to destroy democracy just so the person that they want to win gets extra votes. We all have skeletons in our closet, and Obama has done many things for ACORN.
Why would real Americans let ACORN and money buy the White House. We need to send a message to Obama that the White House is not for sale. Not today and not tomorrow. Obama, I don't care how much money you have and spend and lie about McCain. It won't work.
No it will not work. Not this time and not ever. Obama, I've news for you America is not for sale.
McCain Can't Catch up in 3 weeks and Obama will win
That's right because Sarah Palin is moving the needle.
Remember she outdrew Obama in the TV debates by 10 million people.
She outdrew Biden 2:1 in Biden's hometown of Scranton.
She drew 60,000 to her rally in Orlando and 25,000 in Virginia last week.
She'll provide the highest Nielsen ratings ever for SNL when she appears this Sat. night–
Sarah Palin 2012 & 2016
I don't believe there are undecided voters right now.....
It's funny how the race tightens the day after Obama tells supporters to not get cocky or take the lead for granted...He's psychic too!
Obama/Biden '08
This election is going to be a lot closer than people think. And, for those like Candice from TN who said "this country deserves every bad thing that happens to it if we elect McCain" I doubt you'll be getting on an aeroplane and flying to the Sudan, Iran or Moldova if he wins. How about this? How about, whoever wins, we support them and try to make them succeed over the next 4 years? Novel idea. I'm not sure the Obamabots could do that if McCain wins... there would no doubt be a rush on Kool-Aid.
What a bunch of HOOOOOEY! Since people will lose interest in watching the news for the latest poll B.S., we now have to hear that Obama's lead is not as large! Polls are inherently incorrect so why listen to them at all. All they do is serve up drama, not reality!
Enough already with the polls!
Poll this, poll that- I have never been polled and these things are NOT accurate.
ThHe only poll that counts in Nov 4th and I for one am ready for this whole thing to be over already!!!
I have had enough of this whole campaign season- I want to vote now!!
OBAMA/BIDEN
It's now become obvious to many that the Acorn mess and the Plumber guy is all a carefully staged political ploy from the McCain camp. Just you wait....this plumber guy will not only receive a big check to pay off his liens, he will also join McCain and Palin.
And the Acorn mess is setting the stage for voter fraud in case Obama wins the election.
Wait and see I'm right.
It looks like people react towards stupid robot calls. Shocking !
Polls are meaningless, they reflect only the feelings within a very small group.
A McCain win is still quite possible.
its over for McCain trust Nov4 will reveal everything. He's behind in too many swing states. Plummer Joe doesn't even have a lisc to do plumming. He's just a guy that was trying to put Obama on the spot. He knew all along he was voting for McLame
The Obama Camp needs to stay focused on getting people to the polls on Election day or all the hard effort to win this election will have been wasted. McCain's people are going to hope we think we have this in the bag and just give up. It is not over until the last vote has been counted. Go Barack Obama!
Calling all Democrats!!!
Start voting as soon as you can. I am from Florida where early voting starts on October 20th.
GET OUT AND VOTE PEOPLE. THIS IS GOING TO BE A MATTER OF SINK (REPUBLICANS) OR SWIM (DEMOCRATS). I think after the last four years i would rather swim.
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2008
Come on folks, do you really think Palin could walk into the oval office and run it? Really? This election is the biggest election of the century! If the foreign policy of the United States remains as is, we will have nothing left of out Military by this time next year. The rest of the world wants Obama, because he represents a better approach to dealing with world issues. One that the rest of the world needs to help us with. John is nothing more than an extension of Bush.
I can't believe American will be cheated again...4 more years with McSame will destroy the American econmy completely...
We need completely different direction to recover
Barack Obama will win because of two words "Sarah Palin".
I don't put any faith in these polls, I don't even know why news media's do them for.
I don't actually believe this story.....Obama will win and we need him to win.
This news should motivate Obama/Biden voters to vote Nov. 4th, or take advantage of early voting.
This is a very scary time for America and a McCain and Scary Palin win could be the end all for America.
McCain=Bush......more failures for America, soup lines,national security problems, and more hate for us Americans from other countries.
Vote to save America....Vote Obama/Biden
Please replace Palin with The Plumber. He appeared for more interviews that Palin.
Joe the Plumber for VP.......
Republican Conservative Kathleen Parker was on the Stephen Colbert show a couple of days ago and all but said she was voting for Obama. Now she has written a column slamming the Republican Party for the way they have sent her hate mail and treated Wm. Buckley Jr. and openly states the Republican Party has been taken over by extremists and kooks.
More and more sensible Republicans are opting for Obama which will subsequently show up on November 4th. It's good the news medias want to keep the polling close for their own benefit as it rallies Obama supporters and doesn't allow them to take anything forgranted.
Obama/Biden in November by 100 electoral votes no doubt about it.
Oh, puh-lease. Big deal. All this emphasizes is that all Obama-supporters should BE SURE TO VOTE and not take a win for granted. We can demonstrate that the polls are only an indication of the front-runner. Let's all make this a land-slide election in Barack Obama's favor!
6 points is a good lead.
Much more than that and people start
thinking it is over before they vote and
decide not to bother. This way everyone
knows they still need to vote and encourage
others to vote.
Oh boy...here it goes. The chance for the media to start WRITING the news. You guys have been wanting a scandal riddled campaign that's a horse race. Now, a couple of bounce points in the polls (probably because of the fortuitous and GOP-friendly SUDDEN PLUNGE in gas prices in the last five days) and you get to go nuts. You need the race to be a tight horse race for RATINGS. You're not covering the news.
Here...let me give you a hand: Ask about the Palin's card carying status in a traitorous secessionist movement in Alaska. Ask about it! Cover the calls from Palin in rallies about Obama "not being one of us." It's your job to be hard on all candidates, not just cover what the GOP says about the challenger. Do it!
Hahahahah. Every time the MSM tries manipulate the polls to make it look like a close race-which they do in order to sell ads-our people just work harder to be SURE they are wrong.
Go Team Obama!
Who cares. Every poll is different. I mean one poll can show Obama up by 11 and another show him up by 2. When you're sampling 800 people out of about 150,000,000 voters OBVIOUSLY there are going to be some differences.
As long as voter turnout is high Obama will win in a landslide.
The public has given Obama/Biden decisive victories in all of the debates. Obama's favorability ratings are higher than McCain's, and the majority of voters think Obama is best suited to fix the economy by a wide margin. So, given those things, what hope does McCain possibly have?
this is not a big swing and other polls show gians...so bottom line is...
it ani't over till its over
Now as for Joe the plumber...come on this guy was a plant...
and he is not s licensed plumber , the business he works for is not licensed as a plumber, and he is not buying the business.
he makes 40K a year and would benefit in that realm from Obama's tax plan, plus, fot hsioe who are arigning their hands,...as I understand it the additonal tax would be on the amoount over 250K, not the whole amount.
Repubs before you spin things read, and learn the facts. The lies need to stop or this country is in trouble.
Take heart Obama supporters.
There is no swing here and there won't be a swing. Everyone has to get out and vote.
Remember it is the electoral college votes that count and there is no way McCain can catch Obama now even if McCain were to take those States still identified as toss up States. And Obama is neck and neck as well as slightly ahead in several of those toss up States.
Obama will take this election with nearly 334 electoral votes. You can count on it.
But get out there and vote. If you can vote early do so, and then for the rest of us let's pack those voting places on Nov. 4. no matter how long the lines are and how long we have to stand in line. Take lunch or diner in a picnic basket and camp out in those lines if necessary. Let's give Obama a clear mandate.
Gosh – It's not over 'til the fat lady sings. I hope that this country will see that McCain/Palin should just go bye-bye.... John McCain is one of the most negative people I've ever seen. Palin makes women look bad – somehow I can't see her as president of this great country.
For goodness sake people we have to pay taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Look what 8 years of low taxes have done to our country!!!!
The more you earn the more you pay. Period.
I do not trust the polls, I think they are more of an attempt to shape public opinion than a reflection of public opinion.
This just shows what fools a lot of people are. That "Joe the plumber" fiasco got McCain a lot of publicity, even though the guy isn't a Joe and isn't a plumber. Americans seem to want a joke rather than a competent president. Lord help us if they get one.
Interesting choice of polls. Hotline/Diego has a weighting problem (showing Dems only +2). Not sure which of the THREE Gallup models you are using, but the traditional model is predicated on Republicans having GREATER turnout than Democrats (which is traditional). No one thinks that will be the case this year. And then there is ZOGBY. I don't need to go there.
If you are going to use tracking polls, use all of them and weight the results. This cherry picking to show tightness is pretty ridiculous.
Watch McCain's supporters jump for joy. Polls are like the stock market. I wouldn't be suprised if Obama has a 12 point lead tomorrow.
This was never going to be a 10 or 11 point blowout, and most people who follow these things know it. The country is too divided for the race not to close near the finish line. However, it is going to be extremely difficult for McCain to catch up enough to take the White House. Dems, don't rest on your laurels – Difficult does not mean Impossible.
Just remember, McCain may very well win Oklahoma by 50 or more points – but that gets him the same number of Electoral College votes as if he had won it by 2 points. Obama may win Ohio by 2 points, but he gets the same number of EC votes if he won it by 50 points. Eyes on the prize!
Never under estimate the stupidity of the American people. A wannabe cowboy was elected 8 years ago who started this mess. An angry old white man will continue the mess.
Everyone vote!!!! Obama WILL win as well he deserves.. and please stop it with Joe the Plumber, he doesnt make anywhere near $250,000 and evidently can't pay his taxes even under George Bush ( back taxes approx. 1200.) this guy should not be a viable person that america is trying to relate to.. and will you people please vote based on informed facts, foxx news is not a news source, it is a continuous running commercial for John Mccain.. people should vote on what serves their best interest, 95% should vote Obama and the rest ( if you were the true christians you say you are) than you should vote for Obama as well, spread the wealth, spread the love, spread the peace, it is in the Good for everyone!!!
Dont' panic everyone, the American people are not stupid enough to put an old man in charge and a woman who is completely unqualified to run a car wash let alone our wonderful country. Polls do this, up down and all around. Don't get nervous, just get out and VOTE!
Obama/Biden '08 & '12
Which Zogby poll was this? Over this time period, Zogby was push polling for McCain saying such untrue things as "If you knew Barack Obama supported a plan to give government health care coverage to illegal immigrants, would you be" more or less likely to vote for McCain? Very questionable behavior by Zogby recently.
THIS IS WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR THE AMERICANS TO GET OUT AND VOTE..
NOT ANOTHER BUSH 8 YEARS..NO MCCAIN
OBAMA/BIDEN 08
this is good for Obama – will help get out the vote!
ANd by the way CNN why don't you mention the fact that Obama now has 317 electoral votes, instead of saying his lead fell!!
You know better, that's partisan rhetoric!
Whoever wrote that clearly wants to give a sense of regression when in fact the new electoral vote shows just the opposite.
PS. It's alright if you don't publish my comment, at least you know.
Obama/ Biden will not increase anyone's taxes unless they have incomes greater than 250K. This 'Joe the Plumber' character was a McCain plant. Pay no attention to him.
Not only will crooked McCain/ dizzy Palin increase your taxes (McCain clearly stated he will tax your health care benefits), they will give hugh tax breaks to large corporations, big oil, and multi millionaires. He can't even be honest about this. He's a liar and a fraud.
ANd by the way CNN why don't you mention the fact that Obama now has 317 electoral votes, instead of saying his lead fell!!
You know better, that's partisan rhetoric!
Whoever wrote that clearly wants to give a sense of regression when in fact the new electoral map shows just the opposite.
PS. It's alright if you don't publish my comment, at least you know.
Great, the more Mc Same is up in the polls, Obama people will not hesitate to cast their vote and they actuelly will be more motivate. I prefer this to Obama being up in the polls.
Please listen...Obama does NOT want to tax everyone! He DOES NOT want to tax the "middle guy". Does anyone listen? He is proposing a tax increase on those making over $250,000. That is not the middle guy.
Obama/Biden '08
Polls should be outlawed they offer nothing to the situation but someones agenda. I have alot of friends and none of them have ever been called. or contacted in anyway. if mcain and that lady win this country is doomed racism will destroy this country. I never believed obama was in the lead anyway. God help us.
Polls are goofy. Until the pollsters release who exactly they are polling the data is useless. And that's just one problem with polling. Recent post debate polling on CNN stated there was 10% more Democrats than Republicans asked whether or not Obama or McCain was the winner. The results are skewed yet CNN, and I'm sure other news organizations did the same, spread headlines of a 13% spread between Obama and McCain. Whatever. Exit polling from 2004 Presidential election at 3:00pm eastern time was declaring a so-called landslide victory for John Kerry, and we know how THAT turned out. The media is always going to try and dictate and define a presidential election. This is just a fact of life. Deal with it.
You all had your fun and it was funny to watch you posting your hateful and arrogant posts day after day here, thinking that Obama had a chance.
Now it is time for us adults to weigh in and stop being the silent majority and just be the majority. You see there is a large diffrence between arrogant and confident. Confidence allows you to sit back and watch and wait. Mr. McCain was correct we have you just where we want you. 18 days and you are now going to be blindsided by the rush of all of us into this race.
Bring It!! Bring All You Got!! We ready, we on the phone, in the streets, doing absentee ballots, we got the Young People voting early, we are going to be running Vans, buses. We will not be denied. Bring everything you got!!!, we are going to put it all on the line for Barrack!! Bring the cameras to the polls and see us Roar, again I say, we will not be denied. Sen Obama will be the next president of the United States!!
OBAMA 2008!!!
We have early voting next week I will take that time along with My husband to vote for OBAMA/BIDEN!!! and pretty much any other democrat LOL.!!
WOOHOO!!!!
It sure is funny how when the polls start to go against O, they don't seem to matter any more by his supporters. That's about as consistent and transparent as the candidate himself.
Polls, hand picked citizens wired to mechanical devices..and squiggly lines...rolling blogger comments....
The media wouldn't know a Democrat, a Republican or an Independent if they walked into the room with a donkey, an elephant or question mark tattooed on their forehead.
Notice they never say how many are polled, where they are polled from and however they try to convince us the small group of hand picked citizens have the pulse of the nation.
The "Bradley effect" just might save us from this incompetent man!
Nice try liberal media with trying to convince the American public that the election was over. As we get closer to the election now you are worried about how you will be perceived if your progostications are so far off.
Good. This will ensure that Obama's workers and supporters will redouble their efforts. An 8 or 10 point lead might cause them to be complacent.
They have their work cut out for them since the other camp have shown they are more than willing to lie and smear and behave despicably generally.
Oh, and Nightingale, Obama will REDUCE OR ELIMINATE taxes unless you make a very large net income. Why are the GOP supporters so incapable of actually understanding what's said in this campaign?
President John McCain. Get used to it, people. It's going to happen! Whoo hoo! We're going to win and you guys all know it.
When is the media LIKE CNN going to demand interviews from Palin?????If she is ready to lead this nation should something happen WE AS AMRICANS HAVE THE RIGHT TO GET TO HEAR HER OFF TELEPROMPTER!!!! The Media should be screaming about this!!!!! Rollins and Cooper should be screaming! Larry King should be screaming!!! What is going on here people?
Love the first comment, the first line says it all about Obama supporters.
Unless you agree with them you must be stupid. Well you know what whether I support Obama or McCain( still undecided) it is my choice and my right to vote for who I want. I will not become a lemming because of the historical nature of this race and blindly follow someone who I do not believe in.
The last two Presidential elections I have had to vote against someone and not for someone and that realy stinks and I don't want to do that again. Both canidates have pros and cons and neither has shown that they have what it takes, in my opinion, to run this coutry.
Red,....... nobodies panicking maybe its really you who's nervous and you are trying to shift the attention to the Democrats. Everyone in this election is scared or nervous whether you are Democrat or Republican. I told you before don't put your trust and life in the hands of these two canidate. That can't really do anything without the help of the Almighty himself God not Barack lol. Trust in the one who will not leave you nor forsake you.( Again I am not talking about Barack) CNN here's you chance to spread the Good news and put my comment in rotation. God Bless. Seek a higher calling and not the ones from Washington.
I voted early for Obama and I urge everyone to do the same to make sure their vote will count!!!
Sad part about this story is this is the type of politic americans crave. Surely, the negative attacks are discouraging, yet another example if the polls as a result of it, then do you fault the candidates. They are spending your campaign dollars to get elected. If you don't want the ads, don't donate.
Barack the vote!!!
Please America, for the sake of your own wellbeing and the rest of the world, please don't choose Barack Obama for president. Please think clearly, there is a need for a stable and unifying president in your country!!
Panic!! These polls are getting silly. Remember, this is not a national election so national polls are irrelevnt at this point. As long as Obama has a higher positivity rating, and holds his leads in key states, the election will his to loose and not McCains to win. Surveys in national polls sway due to who is being interviewed and who is being honest when saying they are independent. The only numbers that are more volitile than the stock market are the media's poll numbers.
Bill October 17th, 2008 8:36 am ET
Gallup changed its model to only those voters who have voted in the last two elections.
In fact Bill, according to various news organizations (and Gallup) Gallup has already suspended any further polling as it is unnecessary due to Obama's insurmontable lead.
Get to the polls and vote!
Perhaps the margin of victory will slip from a rout into a mere landslide.
The only Poll that counts is the one taken on Nov 4th.
I will help you get Florida Mac!
Would you please publish a detailed description of your "methodology" for calculating the poll of polls? I have located elsewhere the underlying data from the four polls you mention and I cannot reproduce the results you come up with. I suspect you are doing something that is unsupported by mathematical theory but I cannot be sure since you do not say how you actually arrive at your results. Please describe the process.
Everyone settle down. These polls have gone back and forth just about every day since day 1. mcCain might have lost the third debate, but he did a little better than he did in the other 2. His numbers will go up alightly because of that. He's going to try and use Joe the plumber to his advantage, but I'm not convinced that will really help him all that much. He's already started another barage of negative attack ads and phone calls. They've blown up on him the entire election season so far. It will happen again.
If nothing else, fellow Obama supporters, use this as fuel to get yourselves out there and vote. VOTE EARLY IF YOU CAN. We are in control of the country's destiny, and that control is ours to lose. We must continue to maintain the upper hand.
Somethings wrong with the math. 49 – 43 and 8% are undecided? There's 6 points difference between 43 and 49%.
The best line John McCain, have going for him. "I am not George Bush". Well, John nobody is saying you are George Bush. You are George Bush's YES MAN.
..Poles, schmoles.. John McCain is Toledo, and Barack Obama is Michigan...
O.K people, polling 101... You put 10,000 red marbles and 10,000 blue marbles in a bag, shake them up, and pull out 5. A very small percent of marbles are drawn on, and from day to day you will get different marbles (Monday 3 red, 2 blue Tuesday 4 red one blue etc),
a more telling poll would be to take 500 marbles out of the bag and put them on a table and see if they change color.
The moral of the story is, when it comes to polls, DON"T LOSE YOUR MARBLES, at the end of the day, the finish line is still the decider.
Calm down, Nightingale. Turns out Joe the Plumber isn't who McCain implied he was. Turns out he only makes about $40k per year and has a lien against his house because he hasn't been paying his state taxes (BTW, doesn't even have plumbing license! He says he doesn't need one because his employer has one., which is BS). Obama's tax plan would actually help him more than McCain's would, given his tru circumstances. And even if we really were able to "buy a plumbing business", he'd still be ahead with Obama's plan!
It is all about have effectively the Republicans can get people to vote against their own interests.
Army and Navy Mom, Army Spouse/Retired here (25+ Years) I am with you. I voted already in early voting...and have not doubt, close race/land slide either or, we'll take it. VETERAN FOR OBAMA!!!! I been in battles before and I feel it. I feel a victory!!
VETERANS FOR OBAMA 200!!!
The secrect service can find no evidence nor a single witness to anyone ever calling out "kill him" you see you are so filled with hate that your minds simply heard it that way. This says a lot more about the listener than it does anyone else.
Polls don't access cell phone users. Most young people today are both Obama supporters and lack a land line they use cell phones. Simply because they cannot and are not polled, does not mean they won't show up and vote – and we all know that Obama is their candidate of choice AND that they have the strongest swing vote of any time period. I'm not one bit worried that there is a 1% difference in the numbers stated in these so-called accurate polls ( which always have a difference of +/- 3 or more points anyway lol! )
Who cares how Poland would vote?
mcaniacs it's the electoral vote that counts
PEOPLE FROM ALL STATES....PLEASE REMEMBER TO COME OUT AND VOTE ON NOV. 4th....
ALL YOU COLLEGE STUDENTS - REMEMBER TO VOTE....THIS IS WHY YOU REGISTERED.......
VOTE OBAMA-BIDEN AND BE PROUD OF YOUR COUNTRY !
Polls mean absolutely nothing. Polls don't win elections, they just give the media (ALL MEDIA) something to write about and give them a sense of control over the situation. This election will be determined by votes cast in key "toss-up" states.
Hahahaha....The momemtum will begin again. The Obama "surge" is coming!
CNN is really BIASED!
Sad,
Seems some people can still look at the state of the world today and the state of our country, and say " Yep, this is what I like and want for my children."
Fella from chicago, clearly you also have no idea what socialism is. Socialism is the complete "equal" redistribution of wealth, ie, we all make the same money. Obama's plan comes nowhere near this. In fact, under his plan, it's still essentially the same balance we saw under Reagan in the 80s. Socialism also involves the nationalizing of industry, ie, the people owning the means of production. Obama's plan does not call for that. Finally, even the godfather of capitalism called for modest redistribution of wealth in his book "The Wealth of Nations." He understood it was healthy for capitalism.
Not to mention the fact you don't seem to understand the difference between a system used to choose leaders versus an economic system. Capitalism and socialism are economic systems, either can come via democracy or totalitarianism. You can have totalitarian capitalism or democratic socialism, and vice-versa.
Too much ignorance in this country. Almost unbelievable. We need serious beefing up of civics education in our school systems.
As the election draws near, and The One's socialist tendendies are coming to light. The polls will tighten, and we'll have a wild night on November 4. Buckle up, the rides just starting.
McCain had a decent debate and will get some mileage out of this stupid Joe the Plumber thing. I don't really care about Joe the Plumber - he's a plumber for god sake - everyone knows they do quite well for themselves. Let's not forget about McCain's running mate – Palin – her selection sealed his doom. WHAT was he thinking?
I agree with another reviewer – all of a sudden it's a tight race. I don't think so, but it does appear to add some excitement that way.
I live in a place called the villages here in florida and believe it or not despite the developers biased opinions there are some of us who will vote democratic. even we republicans!!!!!we don`t talk about it much because some of these republicans get really really snarly about it and bring up stuff from the past – - – most of what they say is entirely false – - – - incidentally my father was Herb the plumber- – - – but he was licensed and supervised the installation of the GOLD plumbing at the edsel ford estate.. but he did pay his taxes and approve of social security!!!! ended up living a comfortable life.. in those days you could. not so for me given the bush failed policies!!!!!
I thought Obama won the debate?
This is a tight one, folks! IGNORE THE POLLS, NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY, & VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ON NOV. 4TH!!!!
When independent voters look into the latest rounds of FactCheck, they will see how McCain either falsely represents or distorts IMPORTANT issues, Obama's lead will grow again. Give it a few more days.
Sad part about this story is this is the type of politic americans crave. Surely, the negative attacks are discouraging, yet another example if the polls are a result of it, then do you fault the candidates. They are spending your campaign dollars to get elected. If you don't want the ads, don't donate.
I think the American people are beginning to realize Obama is not what is needed in the White House.
John McCain is not perfect but he will not push us toward socialism.
I think Americans are smart enough to "listen" to that feeling in their gut about obama.
What a stage production this group has fed us. Everything perfect. TOO PERFECT.
Trust the feeling in your gut. obama is nothing more than a good liar.
This is really GREAT news!
I don't want to have to live through another Great Depression!
The Carter years where not a picnic either with mortgage interest rates at 17 % and a President so weak that Iran held us hostage!
Vote for an American Hero with a history of the types of reform we need right now!
McCain/Palin-08
Here we go again you see why is that all YOU Liberals MORONS cry went all of a sudden the polls are going to McCain now. Last week when Obama had a 11 POINT lead you all were not crying!!! all you liberals in this blog!! are Pathethic!!!! Just accept that McCain will win the election. Latinos (Hispanic) WILL all go to McCain. The Latinos just don't trust Obama and that is a fact. The Puerto Rican in New York are voting for McCain and that is a fact by thousands!!!! get use to it McCain will rise in the next three weeks
Go McCain/Palin08
Watch McCain carefully...do we really want a man who screams, pounds his fists, makes crazy faces and in general looks half crazed as our next president? This is what untreated PTSD looks like. All those years as a prisoner of war have taken their toll. This will be a man who has control of the "red button". I am scared of his anger and hot temper. I fear where he will take us....America think carefully as you cast your vote....
The hate mongering is on both sides. On any given day, just read some of these posts by the left on CNN. Before you start pointing the fingers, take a good long look in the mirror. We are a divided country and until we can start start learning to get along as Americans, we deserve every bit of bad fortune that has been thrown our way. And polls don't mean anything BTW. I thought we all learned that by now.
PLEASE GET OUT AND VOTE FOR OBAMA!!!!
PEOPLE wE CAN'T AFFORD ANOTHER 8 YEARS OF WAR AND FEAR!
THAT'S ALL THAT THE REPUGS HAVE DONE THRUOUT THIS CAMPAIGN IS LIE, AND SPREAD FEAR. THEY CAN'T TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES BECASUE THEY WILL DO MORE OF THE SAME IF NOT WORSE. MCAIN IS WAR MONGER WHO WILL REINSTATE THE DRAFT SEND MORE OF OUR YOUNG MEN TO WAS. READ THE DEBATE TRANSCRIPTS, THE TOP TWO THINGS HE WILL CUT IS DEFENSE AND VETERAN AFFAIRS!!!!! OMG! OBAMA AND BIDEN ARE OUR SALVATION FROM THESE AWFUL REPUGS AND THEIR SELF INDULGENT ATTITUDES AND WAYS.
I felt like after McCain repudiated Pres. George Bush and the Republican platform he would gain a couple of points.
Had enough yet? Vote Democrat!
THIS IS AN EXCELLENT REMINDER FOR EVERYONE TO VOTE! WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO LOSE THIS ELECTION! VOTE OBAMA!
To Red,, Palin means nothing, Joh McCain will dump her when he wins.
Virginia Casey – How did you hear something, but the FBI did not? Another smear that never made it to The One's fight the smear website. Such hypocrisy.
Of course it will be a tight race....I've seen every presidential election since Carter vs Reagan in 1980(I'm only 36).Each race went almost neck and neck til election day.Plus polls really aren't a true indicator of which way people will actually vote.If you ask certain questions to a different demographic of people,you could actually influence their decision.
I am getting so sick of this McCain crap. He's trying to tie Obama to Ayers, but yet at the debate he said that Ayers was an "old washed up terrorist." If he is so washed up, then why are you bringing it up. Then he wants to talk about ACORN, but he fails to mention that he gave a big speech for them back in 2006 praising their work. I guess its ok for McCain to do these things, just not Obama. To be honest, this world would be better off if McCain was still a POW. But noooo, he's not because they didn't want him either.
The dirt and mud-slinging is the nature of politics but in this election it seems to be more the nature of republican politics. There are really two reasons I will vote for Obama – McCain's temperament which I truly, truly believe will put this country in danger, and McCain's choice of Palin, again, a huge lack of judgment that showed me McCain's desire to win at all costs trumped the welfare of America, that will also put this country in danger. The choice we the voters make will determine what happens to us and in the end, we'll get what we deserve as a nation.
(shakes head).....
Forget the polls, forget the media. Get out, vote early or vote November 4th. Win or lose, we need to Barack the Vote!
I'm glad the polls are swinging. That will encourage everyone to go out and vote. Do not get 'cocky" and think this election is over...
VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!
Obama/Biden 08
"Joe the Plumber" whose "taxes are going to be raised".... doesn't make anything near 250, 000 dollars which means he is not going to have his taxes raised, he actually owes thousands of dollars in taxes on his home which has a lean on it, and he doesn't even have a plumbing licencse in Ohio!!!!!! Let's drop the whole pathetic reference and look at the issues that will effect every American...not a measly 5 percent.
OBAMA WILL WIN!!! MCCAIN CANT EVEN VETTE JOE THE PLUMBER JUST LIKE HE DIDNT SARAH PALIN, AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SMARTER THAN MCCAIN THINKS.
I think negative campaigning by McCain /Palin is working. But by the grace of God (insha Allah) Obama will prevail.Good will always win and triumph over evil. God has great plans for this country-and for that Obama has to win. L Ali (Muslim Americans for Obama)
Gore and Kerry had a bigger lead then this and we know how that turned out. I'm a Democrat that will never vote for a man who really cant tell me what he is going to do if he becomes POTUS. Obama is not ready for the 3 letter word JOBS. LOL
What scares me is when McBrain dies the pig takes over...My Gad!!!
Go Obama!
on nov 4th, make sure that there is nothing to keep you from going out to your poll and casting your vote. do not accept any excuses from your family members and friends either (eespecially our young & 1st time voters). this is propbaby the most important election in our lifetime. remember the past 2 elections? we don't want a repeat. it's time for america to change in a new direction...the whole world knows this...and the whole world is watching!!!
obama/biden 08
Why is it when he is up 10 points the polls are the greatest things ever but the minute he drops a point or two, it's the GOP machine kicking in. Why don't you all worry about the voter registration fraud that is rampantly going on rather than a poll that is easily manipulated by either party
Gallup gives it Obama 49 to Mcccain 47 and the national is 49 Obama and 42 McCain. The poll I am looking forward to is the one that says unamously OBAMA WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For all the brain-dead JM/Fido supporters... I thought polls don't matter? All they've been saying when past polls were provided is "Doesn't matter, only Nov 4th matters" Now that their geriatric guy and vacuous dolt are getting closer, they're all a-quiver with excitement. Make up your minds!! Of course fat oxycotin boy and shamitty will play this up for everyone too and the good little lemmings will eat it up....truly sad
poetic... exactly!! Who cares how much he wins by... as long as it's a clear victory and we keep McFalin out of the White House!! Obama 08!
Hmmmmm
And these polls were taken BEFORE the debates.
I wonder what they read today??????
as a grandma of 14 in very diverse family, I am appalled at the behavior of the Rep campaign. How can I continue to encourage my family to treat people like I would want to be treated? Perhaps the most difficult thing to overcome with them is the concept that Reps. purport to be Christian, caring people. Yet the behavior is all too often the direct opposite. Rather it seems to endorse the pious, righteous attitude that all too long has pushed others away form the christian way of living.
Last July when gas prices were at their highest, I predicted that the gas prices would drop a few weeks before the election. The Republicans control the oil companies, and high gas prices are not favorable to them in the pols. All Obama supporters out there need to remind voters of the Bush/McCain failed policies of the last 8 years. Also, when McCain says that the last 8 years have not been good, isn't he really implying that things were much better under a Democrat, the Clinton Administration? Also, Palin is a disaster. News this week that her future son-in-law is dropping out of high school should make us all very scared.
Its because all the joes are voting now...Joe Plumber, Six-Pack, Stalin, of Arimathea, from the nativity, piscopo...
Question???
Are all you McCain voters taking into account, that if he does'nt live out his term ( which the actuary tables say it;s highly possible ), that Palin will be President. Are u really thinking this thru ?
COME ON PEOPLE! It has been an OBVIOUS choice every since McCain chose Palin as his running mate!!!! She is not fit to be Vice President or President!!!!!!!!!! McCain can't even choose a proper running mate, how can he make the right choices for our country???? THINK ABOUT IT!
Nightingale Sings in Berkley Square, you sound really idiodict by repeating the nonsense that McCain said about taxing Joe the Plumber and if he gets taxed, well so what! He apparently has enough money to buy a business while many people, hardworking people don't have to even buy the basics for their homes. Plus Joe the plumber don't even have a license to operate, he needs to take some business management 101 and learn before arguing about something he doesn't have!
Anyone voting for McCain is just completely blind!
even if john mccain win the toss up states, he still need to take a stste from ogama, NOT THIS TIME, YES WE WILL
America please no more bush/mcsame lies and deceit. mcsame is just that. he voted WITH bush 90% of the time. look where that has gotten us. all the work bush is NOW trying to do is not going to fix this mess and it will just get worse. bush is the biggest liar in the world. he lied about the war, he lied about what he would do for middle america. So come on be smart, lets give someone else an opportunity to get America back on track. And to think that sarah palin could be president if anything happens to mcsame, i dont even want to think about it.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08
Obama and the Dem controlled congress will throw us into a depression. Vote McCain.
I don't care about the margin of victory.All I know is that"It is over"for John McCain and Sarah Palin. Ditto.Finito,Adios,Good-bye.
The Slient Majority will speak volumes Nov. 4. The polls I believe are not accurate. MCCain is down by may be 3-5. People are beginning to take a second look and those sitting on the fence ,in the end, will vote MCCain.
Call it the Truman or Bradley effect.
It always tightens up near voting day. But Obamas lead is probably insurmountable. I wish it would be a landslide but will settle for a narrow win.
yes we will!!!!!!!! forget the polls people now it's up to us.
I'm not sure why this is news. Don't most of these polls have a plus/minus 3% margin of error? In any case, yes, by all means, vote no matter what the polls say!!!
Just work harder to elect Obama/Biden!
These are sampling errors. I can not believe that CNN reported it as news.
Reasons to vote for Obama: He is eloquent, he is educated. The only problem is that he is also the most inexperienced candidate for President in two hundred years. He has never done anything outstanding, and he has shown extremely poor judgement on the Iraq War, Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, his teenage Communist mentor; his buddy Rezko, his convicted French oil buddy, an infinitum that we don't even know about.
How can he fight terrorism when he is a close acquaintence of terrorists Ayers and his wife?
His strong lead in the polls just shows how little the people polled care about their country.
"OBAMA" WILL WIN.HIS ELECTION WILL BE A BIG STEP IN PURGING THE CANCER THAT IS "RACISM" WHICH THIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE HAS EXSPOSED.
No just points to the weak minds of some that embrace attempts to "Swift Boat", Obama. I am not an Obama fan, however, I will not cast my ballot for John McCain,
obama is a socialist. the u.s. will be in a depression within 3 years if obama is elected. socialism does not work.(cuba, germany)
mccain put palin as VP out of desperation for votes from young americans because she looks appealing to them. its sick, its sad, and its very desperate. vote mccain and you get 4 years of the same...
vote obama and you get 4 years of change. FOR THE BETTER!!! although i still think he shoulda picked hilary as his VP. and "joe average" if you say that liberals manipulate these polls what about the republican news network fox news????
i still perfer cnn anyday
Why do people still believe that Obama will tax everybody? He says it plain and clear that he will only raise taxes on people making over $250K. If I made over $250K a year, I wouldn't mind paying higher taxes. Wise up and listen and read about both parties policies before you post. As for Ayers, he's one of the most well respected educators in Illinois. Republicans put him on that board with Obama. Nobody cared about Rev. Wright when he was holding hands with the Clintons! That was less than 20 years ago. McCain gave a keynote address for ACORN two years ago. Everything that they throw at Obama, they were just as guilty of not too long ago!