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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The polls in the presidential race have been swinging wildly as of late, with some polls showing Sen. Barack Obama pulling ahead to a big lead over Sen. John McCain while others show the race much tighter. The Associated Press poll, released yesterday falls into the latter category. The AP shows the race in a statistical tie, 44-43% for Obama.This is the second poll in recent days to show the race in a virtual flat-footed tie. The George Washington University Battleground poll, conducted by a Democratic and Republican strategist, also showed a one point lead for Obama.The AP poll was taken ...
In a surprising result, the latest Gallup/USA Today poll of likely voters in the presidential race shows Sen. John McCain leading Sen. Barack Obama by four percentage points, 49-45. The shift represents a swing of 10 points in favor of Sen. McCain from last month's poll, which showed the Republican trailing Obama by 6 points. The poll was conducted over the weekend, on the heels of Sen. Obama's foreign trip. That trip was designed to show Sen. Obama as a competent manager of foreign policy and national security matters. But controversies marred the ending of the trip and may have contributed ...
Fred Barnes has an article out today in the Weekly Standard where he breaks down the strategies and scenarios of the now five top GOP candidates. Giuliani, Thompson, Romney, McCain, and Huckabee. He rightly says that national polls are a terrible predictor of the ultimate winner, but I have a couple bones to pick with his analysis. ...
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