Daily Gallup : O 49 Ding-a-ling 42 (Book Banner's Affect not yet shown)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://gallup.com

September 4, 2008

Gallup Daily: No Dent in Obama Lead So FarObama holds 7-point lead in latest resultsUSA Election 2008 Gallup Daily Americas Northern America PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama continues to hold a lead over John McCain, 49% to 42%, in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update.

The results are based on interviewing conducted Sept. 1-3. The vast majority of interviews on Wednesday evening were conducted before Sarah Palin gave her much-anticipated convention speech. However, the data do indicate that the initial first two nights of the convention -- the slimmed down Monday program in deference to Hurricane Gustav and Tuesday's speeches headlined by former senator Fred Thompson -- have, so far, done little to change voter preferences.

Thursday's interviewing will be the first to reflect the immediate impact of Palin's speech, and the coming days will give a truer measure of the effect the GOP convention -- including McCain's acceptance speech tonight -- is having on voters. Obama got a four percentage point increase in his share of the vote in Gallup Poll Daily tracking coming out of the Democratic convention last week, establishing a lead over McCain after the two had been exactly tied immediately prior to last week's convention. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.) -- Jeff Jones

[TornadoTN]

1. "Book Banner" is she like the female equivalent of "Bruce Banner"?

[nomorenomore08]

2. "Book banner's effect not yet shown." Sure it is.

It shows in the fact that Obama is getting close to a double-digit lead. :P