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Obama's lead in Gallup Daily Poll vaporizes
After leading Clinton outside the margin of error in 2 of the last 3 days, today Barack Obama's support dropped by 3 points (his largest drop in 14 days), putting Clinton and Obama back into a statistical tie, according to the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/104437/Gallup-Daily-Tracking-Election-2008.aspx
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The national poll is irrelevant. Most of the nation has already voted. It's polls in the remaining primary states that matter, especially TX and OH.
(And I said the same thing when the polls showed Obama leading, so it's not a politically motivated comment.)
February 19, 2008 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know that with tons of info available these days, it's a great temptation to watch polls like a stock ticker, but the local fluctuations aren't the issue, you have to do moving averages.
The story is that for nearly 2 years HRC was considered the inevitable front-runner and now the polls show that things are in a dead heat.
In fact, it was *Hillary's* lead that vaporized.
Things are likely to stay in a dead heat for nearly 2 weeks... regardless of minor up and down ticks for either candidate.
Besides, watching stock tickers is so 90's.
Just like the Clintons.
February 19, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
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