Polls: Obama’s Lead Continues to Decrease
The latest published poll shows that Barack Obama’s lead to John McCain continues to decrease. Where many pollsters said days ago that Obama was leading by 7%-8%, some even more than 10%, the latest Rasmussen, Gallup and now Reuters/C-SPAN/ZOGBY polls say that increasingly more Americans seem to take McCain serious.
According to Reuters/C-SPAN/ZOGBY 49% of voters say they support Obama, against 44% who plan to vote for McCain. Although that is still a significant lead for Obama, it is not as big a lead as his and his top advisers had hoped. Especially not because they fear that the polls are incorrect.
Obama staffers, and the man himself, were reported to believe that poll numbers were artificially high for him, and artificially low for McCain. If that is true, and Obama’s lead is only 5% in such artificial circumstance,s the differences between the two could very well fall within the margin of error.
Be that as it may, all we have are polls to work with, all of them putting Obama in the lead, which would make sense considering the unpopularity of George W. Bush, the economic crisis, and McCain’s inability to articulate his vision for America in an appealing way.
Important to note with the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll is that it has a margin of error of 2.9%.
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