Showing posts with label Battleground. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battleground. Show all posts

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Movin' On Up

And the piece of the pie is gettin' bigger.

Gallup's Newest Poll: Obama +8

FiveThirtyEight.com: Chance of Obama winning the election: 78.5%

RealClearPolitics: National Average of Polls: Obama +4.8

Pollster.com: Obama 48.2/McCain 42.1

Rasmussen: "Obama's biggest lead yet" 50%/44%

Battleground Tracking: Is the lone holdout of all the polls, coming it at +2% McCain, with data through 9/25/08.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Who Is Behind The Battleground Poll On Real Clear Politics

Don and I have been perplexed by exactly who was behind this; google searches, etc. weren't helping us. Well, a big "duh" moment; I'd been researching it at my office, and my wireless laptop at home is apparently a tad slower. When I clicked "Battleground" (which just today is called GW/Battleground Tracking, which I would have surely been able to investigate and figure out). Anyhow; today, I click on the +2 McCain GW/Battleground link on RCP, and voila; it's a many page pdf. I only realized it when my laptop briefly flashed the cover page before going to the poll data page. Everyone else may have already figured this out, but I know Don and I had been puzzled. So if nothing else, Don, here you go. :)