HELL YEA!: Race Tightens According to New Poll Numbers (48-46)

[jefferson_dem]

Sunday September 05, 2004--The Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 48% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 46%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern. Two-thirds of the interview for today's report were completed after the President's speech on Thursday night.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Presidential_Tracking_Poll.htm

[jefferson_dem]

1. TO BE MORE PRECISE: It's 47.6 to 46.4 !

:bounce:

[JohnnyRingo]

9. Yeah!....WTF is that about?

Yeterday they began using decimals.
Is their "margin of error" 3.712 % ?

[expatriot]

2. Both the Time and Newsweek poll were SUCH bad polls

It may not be as close as the Rasmussen poll you cite, but it makes a lot more sense.

[jefferson_dem]

4. i know...i know

but here's reason to hope at least...that the American public sees the Truth.

[ochazuke]

3. Negative Bounce

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Negative Bounce.

[meti57b]

5. thank you!

[jody]

6. Rasmussen source data for Ohio -- Kerry 48%, Bush 46% and

conventional wisdom holds that Bush must win both Ohio and Florida to win in November.

[Hippo_Tron]

14. Bush needs both to win, Kerry needs only one

Something to be optimistic about.

[TheFarseer]

7. This election will not be a blowout, I think that's obvious

at least not in percentage of popular vote. Electoral votes might get a bit ugly but popular vote I think almost has to stay in the margin of error. We're just to polarized for anything else.

[Zomby Woof]

8. B-b-but what about the SKY???

IS IT FALLING? :D

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. Henny Penny: "We Were All Wrong" about the sky is falling! n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. When you see a positive DU thread -- You must KICK IT

:kick:

[xrepub]

12. Josh Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo.com

indicates that repug and dem private polls have bush up by 4.

Josh is usually right on.

[kwolf68]

13. OH NO...Bad Poll News

Yep folks. Just did a poll where I interviewed some of my family.

6 will vote for Bush (4 of them don't like him though)
3 will vote for Kerry
1 is undecided
1 will not vote

We are in trouble folks.

The undecided lives in Pennsylvania by the way.

My point to this inane post is to detail that polls by their nature are not necessarily a true indicator of anything..plus they can be heavily manipulated.