I'm not....it has to be kept close...just like the elections in other countries are kept close.
It puts a lot of money in the political industrial complex.
And makes it easy for them to select who they want to be president...cause they can steal just enough votes to determin the outcome of any election.
They are preparing the field for the game and the winner will be decided by the PTB.
Sorry if that sounds cynical but how many times do we have to get fooled before we wake up.

but I feel the main reason it's close is a lousy economy and not enough job growth. If job growth were strong Obama would be up by 20 points. No matter what the GOP has done to sabotage the recovery (and they have done a lot), people still will blame the incumbent. It's nothing new.

I could paraphrase an old saying....He who controls the polls controls perception.
And it is not as hard as you think to control something simple like a poll.

is somehow involved in this conspiracy??

they don't recruit people for a conspiracy....and in any conspiracy only a hand full of people actually know the big picture.
For example if you wanted to steal an election you would only need one person...and that one person could offer some money to the Foreman who has the key to the warehouse where the voting machines are stored and get him to forget to lock the door at a certain time...then one could sneak in, install the program of do your fiddling around and no one would know shit.
And there are dozens of ways to do stuff like that.

The problem with the left is that they think manipulating the system is too hard or they object to it on grounds of morality...and they are wrong about the first and right about the last...and so they are easily convinced that something else happened...Kerry did not run a good campaign or the people are just nuts...anything but that they have been snookered.

And not the people in charge of the GOP are the sociopaths because they know how to win, and they will not think twoice to do what ever it takes to win...and manipulation and control is their speciality...
That is how they win and we lose.

And bottom line is if you got money you can get any results you want and that includs polls...and no one outside the circle needs to know.

Voting machines are stored in hundreds, if not thousands, places around the country. These are under the jurisdiction of hundreds of different voting jurisdictions which are headed by both parties. So, no, one person could not do anything. It would take thousands of people for your conspiracy to even get off the ground. I won't go on because you are the type who sees conspiracy in all things.

A member of the Grassy Knoll society.
But to steal an election you don't have to steal every vote and you don't have to manipulate every precinct or every voting machine...and in fact only a small percentage of them to effect an election.
You think of me as a CTer and I see you as naive....but I have known evil people and know that they have no problem plotting and scheming to get what they want and have no moral restraints to say no to anything that will work...And you think it is unlikely because it is too hard. So it goes.

Based on the REAL WORLD. C'mon folks... tell me, how many Romney stickers do you see around your city? And how many people do you know that are voting for him? How many pro-Romney people have you actually seen online?

There is no way in hell Rmoney is getting 17% of the AA vote, and no gender gap??

I remember the last few elections people got their panties in a bunch over PPP polling which turned out to be total BS. As do all the polls.

The ONLY polls that matter are the POLLING PLACES, where all of us should be volunteering to get our elderly neighbors there to vote, and to make calls to get folks to the POLLS... THOSE are the ones that matter.

I always drop out of DU as we get closer to the election, because of the poll postings... And yeah, how did those polls work out the last few elections?? THey were WRONG.. All of them...

There is no way that Obama is in an upward trajectory (see Thursday, Saturday, Sunday) and has one huge reversal in the midst of that trajectory.

Polls are tricky and this one looks somehow spurious

I thought is that the numbers don't honestly reflect the geographics. Maybe too much in Utah which might account the low numbers of AA for Obama.

Averaged across the four days with equal weighting to each day gives this:

O R U
Thurs 48 45 7
Friday 41 49 10
Saturday 50 45 5
Sunday 51 36 13
Avg 47.5 43.75 8.75

Quite a difference from what they reported. I suppose they must have just take the total average rather than using the daily averages. That doesnt really make sense because the main point of doing multiple days is to smooth out the up and downs of the daily results.