(WaPo/ABC)Poll Shows Obama Lead Over McCain Holding Steady

[maddezmom]

Source: WaPo

By Jennifer Agiesta and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, October 26, 2008; 5:11 PM

For John McCain to close the gap with Barack Obama over the final nine days of the campaign, he has to blunt the big advantage Obama has with voters on the central issue of the day, the nation's sagging economy.

In Sunday's Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll, Obama continues to have the edge on this central question, but at 11 points, it is his lowest of the month. It corresponds with his slimmest lead in the first full week of the poll: Among likely voters, 52 percent support Obama and 45 percent back McCain.

Those numbers are little different from previous results from the poll, which reports on a four-day rolling average of interviews with approximately 1,350 likely voters. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

Also in the new poll is a modest easing of voters' apprehension about the direction of the country: 13 percent of voters see the nation as headed in the right direction, a low number, but an increase from seven percent in a Post-ABC poll conducted in September just after the first of several steep declines on Wall Street.



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[TiredOldMan]

1. Still Scared

What concerns me is a whole lot of polls showed Kerry ahead by 5 or so points at this point in 2004 as well. I don't trust polls. I want this election over and won.

[Texas Mom]

2. That is simply not true

Shrub was up 2-5 points. Look it up. Don't believe the freepers.

[NutmegYankee]

3. Most showed Bush ahead. Kerry was never ahead by 5.

I remember hoping for a last minutes push or the "cell phone" voters to show up.

[goforit]

5. The election was stolen in 04. But Kerry never contested it.

(the supporting S&K frat boy that he is )

Scared??? YES!!! IT CAN BE STOLEN AGAIN!!!!

[onenote]

7. Maybe "a whole lot of polls showed Kerry ahead by 5 or so points"

at this point in 2004 if you are talking about some alternate universe. But here on planet earth, that's just wrong. Why don't people look stuff up before spewing misinformation?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry.html

[underpants]

4. 7 points is slim?

in the era of wedge politics??? really?

[RainDog]

6. kick

[Demeter]

8. Holding Steady, Hmm?

How about growing like an avalanche? A little truth wouldn't hurt.