New CNN poll just out McCain 48 Obama 48

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/08/cnn-poll-race-dead-even/

CNN Poll: Race dead even
Posted: 12:01 PM ET

From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser

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.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll out Monday afternoon has McCain and Obama tied at 48 percent each among registered voters questioned. Three percent of voters are undecided in the survey, which was conducted Friday through Sunday.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll is one of three new surveys taken mostly over the weekend. The other two are a Gallup Tracking Poll and a Diageo/Hotline survey. When all three are averaged together for a new CNN Poll of Polls, the results have McCain up one point, 47 percent to 46 percent. That’s the first time in the CNN Poll of Polls that McCain has an advantage over Obama.

The battle for the presidency also includes some minor party candidates, including Independent Ralph Nader, Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr, and Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney — but the poll suggests they don’t have any impact on the shape of the race.

When they are added to the equation, the race between McCain and Obama remains tied, at 45 percent each, with Nader and Barr at 3 percent each and McKinney at 1 percent.

Has the Republican convention and the naming of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate given McCain a bounce in the polls?

“Other polls are showing ‘convention bounces’ for McCain, but ours does not,’ says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “The reason is probably due to the fact that the CNN poll has had a very low number of respondents who say they are undecided for several months. Bounces tend to occur when undecided voters switch to a candidate, but with so few truly undecided voters in our polls, there was little room for a bounce for Obama or McCain.”

Holland also points out that despite a concerted outreach by the McCain-Palin team to former women supporters of Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, women nationwide seem to be sticking with Obama – 52 percent of women are planning to vote Democratic, while 51 percent of men are in the GOP column.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was based on 1,022 telephone interviews. The survey’s sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Filed under: Barack Obama • John McCain

I'll take a tie because then our ground game should be able to put Obama over the top.

I'll take a tie because then our ground game should be able to put Obama over the top.

...panic.

:sarcasm:

I'm guessing USA Today is an outlier.

They more than likely oversampled Republicans for their bogus results.

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By the end of the week expect Obama/Biden moving up in the polls and then we'll see the debates. Forget about Sarah Palin, SHE IS A DISTRACTION. I do not give a shit about Track, Piper, Willow, Trig, Bristol or Todd!!! I do give a shit about unmasking McCain, he is at the top of the ticket.

They look like an outlier now...

might be a bit stale.

I think their tracking poll numbers are much better.

It really hurt Gore in 00 because it gave the impression of a losing campaign...

Take a deep breath, and get back to work.

is looking more and more like a pimple.

And whatever the reasons have been to not put Palin on any talkshows - it's stupid.
People's memories are short - maybe she's forgotten already :)

We'll see in the coming days' polls.

A tight race is good for bidness, don't ya see!