LAtest state polls show Obama gaining even more ground.

[retrospooty]

Contrary to some other posts here, it looks like all is going very well for the Obama camp.

Current - Obama up 306 to 160

http://www.realclearpolitics.c.../maps/obama_vs_mccain/

No toss up - Obama up 364 to 174

http://www.realclearpolitics.c...bama_vs_mccain/?map=10

combo score of 14 top polls. Obama up 7.4% (this includes an AP poll showing +1 and a pew research shoing +14, both are outliers)

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/

 

[m1ldslide1]

Obama and McCain neck and neck in rural polls:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200...XG3MXB5NQimTNdbNR34T0D

This contradicts yesterday's Yahoo news, which was that the "race is tightening". At first I was dismayed to read that, but my second response to that headline was "good - maybe now folks will be motivated to vote". I'm getting a little worried about a complacency factor, where people will assume its in the bag for Obama and thus neglect to actually vote. This is important, given all of the churches that will be transporting parishioners to the polls by the busload.

 

[Stoneburner]

The yahoo ap poll was a major outlier.

 

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: Stoneburner
The yahoo ap poll was a major outlier.

So are the polls that give Obama 10 point lead.

The race is most likely a 5 point race at this point.

It is still to early to look at the polls and make a guess about the final outcome.
Next Friday or Saturday we should see mass movement or at least the undecideds will disappear then we can see who is going to win.

 

[retrospooty]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn

Originally posted by: Stoneburner
The yahoo ap poll was a major outlier.

So are the polls that give Obama 10 point lead. The race is most likely a 5 point race at this point.

Of the 14 polls, 5 of them have Obama +9 or more... Including Fox news. How is that an outlier ?