McCain, Obama deadlocked in presidential race

Source: CNN


From Paul Steinhauser
CNN Deputy Political Director

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new national poll taken entirely after the end of the Republican convention suggests the race for the White House between John McCain and Barack Obama is dead even.
Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will continue campaigning together early in the week.


McCain and Obama are tied at 48 percent each, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll out Monday afternoon.

Three percent of voters are undecided, according to the survey.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll questioned 1,022 registered voters by telephone. The survey, conducted Friday through Sunday, has a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points...


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What's going on with these polls?

..I don't believe the poll that shows McCain ahead by 10 points. It will all come down to turn out.

Haven't we seen this movie already?

I'm guessing these people aren't being polled.

Media sponsored polls are exactly what they say they are. There's an ulterior motive to manipulating the statistics in order to make the race seem much tighter than it really is. The more competitive it appears then the less interest viewers will have in the polls. It makes no difference who is really ahead because a blowout either way means people will change the channel.

CNN...LOL. Bought, paid for, packaged and sold anyway they like it. All of these polls are bullshit!

A post-convention bounce SHOULD put him at least nominally ahead--that he's tied is very bad for him.

I can't believe people are naive enough to trust these polls after what we have endured the last 8 years..... especially those on DU.

The "polls" must indicate a dead heat in order to make the switched Diebold results believable to the majority of Americans. Who believe what they are told to.

They have newspapers and advertising slots to sell.

Close races generate more news than lopsided ones.

Evidence of manipulation??? None offered.

ALL the polls??? None of the polls are to be believed?

I think you are highly gullible, if you think there is a vast conspiracy among ABC, WaPo, NYT, Gallup, CBS, Rasmussen, Quinnipiac, Zogby, CNN, etc.

It's a close race, and the winner will be decided, IMO, after the debates.

the Democratic nominee running against President Ronald Reagan, experienced an opinion poll "dead cat bounce" - a term borrowed from the stock market to describe a sharp decline in the price of a stock followed by a rise and a resumption of a downward shift. Mr Mondale's bounce was 16 points but he went on to lose in a landslide."

From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/2706901/John-McCain-moves-ahead-of-Barack-Obama-in-US-presidential-election-polls.html

The debates may be decisive.