National Polls Tighten Up a Bit

Let's look at the bright side: At least McCain has stopped the freefall. When we started seeing Gallup in double digits, I figured it was going to get ugly. It still might, but all those projections of landslides may have been a wee bit premature.

So today we have Rasmussen showing Obama up by five at 50-45. This has been up to eight a few days ago. Still, McCain has been stuck at 45% or less for three weeks and is going to need a boost to make up the difference. A strong showing at tomorrow's debate would be a good place to start.

While Gallup Sunday reported the race at 50-43, the likely voters has it at 50-46, almost identical to Rasmussen. Again, at least some signs of life for McCain.

Meanwhile, today's Zogby poll has it 48-44 for Obama.

Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama slipped back into a statistical dead heat with Republican Party nominee John McCain, but still holds the advantage over McCain, the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby likely voter poll shows.

In this latest report, McCain gained eight-tenths of a point, while Obama lost one full point.

While the worldwide economic system underwent dramatic turmoil last week, the poll shows the presidential race remarkably unchanged overall at the end of the first full week of daily tracking. Through the week, Obama has always held a small lead, as large as 6.1 points (on Saturday) and as little as 1.9 points (last Wednesday).

The Washington Post-ABC News poll has been so erratic of late with it's odd weighting, that it's completely unreliable now and is way out of proportion with the others noted above.

Now, I guess it's never too late for McCain to unveil his comeback speech. In the end, it may not matter. The media will simply scour the audience for someone saying something stupid and that will become the news. I have to figure by now Obama's people must be rushing to McCain events to do some astro-turfing and blurt out something incendiary that the media can run with.

Forget Obama supporters doing stupid things. The media doesn't have any interest for the most part, although some idiotic comments filter through.

Several Republican attendees complained of the protesters' vulgarity, especially in light of recent criticism of the behavior of people at McCain-Palin rallies.

Outside on Broad Street, waiting for Palin to leave, one man was heard saying: "Let's stone her, old school."

Another protester shouted at someone entering the hotel, "Wait till your daughter wants an abortion, you hypocrite."

Lovely.

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