Gallup Daily: Obama Ahead, 51% to 41%

[RedSpartan]

Source: Gallup

PRINCETON, NJ -- Voter preferences in the presidential race continue to be generally auspicious for Barack Obama's election prospects only three weeks ahead of the eve of Election Day. Obama leads McCain by 10 percentage points, 51% to 41%, among all registered voters, according to Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 10-12.

The percentage of registered voters favoring Obama has been 50%, 51%, or 52% in each Gallup Poll Daily tracking report since Oct. 4. Support for McCain has been a steady 41% to 43% across the same time period. Thus, although the gap between the two candidates has varied from seven to 11 points in recent days, voter preferences have, in fact, been quite stable.


Read more: http://www.gallup.com/poll/111112/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Ah...

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[Scurrilous]

1. Great @#$% news!

[ananda]

2. Latest poll shows Obama lead narrowing.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7012635782

It's down to five now.

[No Passaran]

5. That's 9-11, this is 10-12. Read the poll data

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Ooops

How you feelin'?

[Wednesdays]

13. Concerned, probably.

[Mark E. Smith]

3. Ha! That'll put a knot in McLooney's neck

I suspect that his campaign was very anxious
to see if Sunday's numbers held.

And they did most certainly did not.

[Kahuna]

12. Yep.

[speedoo]

4. Oops. So much for McPalin's "resurgence".

Poor McPalin did not even have time to try to capitalize.

[moosewhisperer]

7. Hot. Damn.

Now if only we could be sure that the actual voting will be fair.

[brianna69]

8. Excellent

Is Drudge going to put these numbers up. Poor Matt.

[nichomachus]

9. Fantastic -- now work like we're 10 points behind n/t

[Shoelace]

11. yes, never take anything for granted

and work, give, and work so more!

[tclambert]

10. New McCain strategy

Pray for the rapture.

[blackspade]

15. indeed!

Maybe the aliens will swoop in, take all of these crazy religious nutjobs with them, and leave the world to the rest of us SANE folks to fix.
Wow, one can dream, right?

[BlueDonkey08]

14. Good news

But we need to make it a LANDSLIDE. We need to keep working as hard as we have been.

[tclambert]

18. Yeah, let's get 60 in the Senate.

[wishlist]

16. ABC news tonight showed ABC/Wash Post poll Obama up to 53%, McCain 43%

This poll was very good news, not just for the Obama 53% but for the extremely high favorables on Obama as running a more positive campaign vs McCain's attacks and with having confidence that Obama can deal with problems. Charlie Gibson stated no candidate for Pres has ever lost with such a high margin at this point in campaign.

[tclambert]

19. Gallup history

From John Harwood, New York Times:

"In the latest Gallup tracking poll (10/12), Mr. Obama leads Mr. McCain 50 percent to 43 percent among registered voters. Mr. McCain’s deficit in that survey has remained seven percentage points or more for most of the last two weeks.

"Since Gallup began presidential polling in 1936, only one candidate has overcome a deficit that large, and this late, to win the White House: Ronald Reagan, who trailed President Jimmy Carter 47 percent to 39 percent in a survey completed on Oct. 26, 1980."

Once in 72 years. 18 previous presidential elections. FiveThirtyEight.com puts McCain's odds at 5.1%.

[tclambert]

17. Florida now leaning Obama

RealClearPolitics.com now lists Florida as leaning Obama. It just went to a 5% lead for "that one." They say 304 electoral votes solid or leaning for Obama, 158 solid or leaning for McCain, 75 still toss-ups. And for the first time, RCP's average of national polls shows Obama at 50%.

[Doctor_J]

20. Zogby has the gap narrowing to 4%

what's up with that? I just saw the headline ay Yahoo

[truthisfreedom]

21. Pretty hard to change peoples' minds at this point. We're looking at something huge happening to

make this spread disappear.