The following is a round-up of polls from across the country graciously supplied by Scott Wilk of Anchor Consulting, LLC. The Beacon will be posting this interesting election information periodically as it is supplied leading up to the election. Enjoy. The daily Diageo/Hotline tracking poll of likely voters, shows Obama ahead, 48-42%. Gallup’s latest tracking poll of national RVs has Obama leading, 51-42%.
- Gallup’s tracking poll of national LVs, where the polling universe is based on past voting history, has Obama leading, 51-44%.
- Gallup’s tracking poll of national LVs, where the polling universe is based on stated intent to vote, has Obama leading, 49-46%.
Rasmussen’s tracker has the race at 51-46% Obama.
ABC News/WaPo tracker of likely voters has Obama ahead, 52-44
CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corp. polls of likely voters, conducted 10/23-28:
- CO: 53-45%, Obama
- FL: 51-47%, Obama
- NV: 52-45%, Obama
- NC: 52-46%, Obama
- OH: 51-47%, Obama
- PA: 55-43%, Obama
- VA: 53-44%, Obama
- AZ: 53-46%, McCain
- GA: 52-47%, McCain
- MO: 50-48%, McCain
Research 2000 poll of likely Indiana voters, conducted 10/24-28, shows the candidates tied 47-47% in the Hoosier state.
FiveThirtyEight.com battleground state-by-state projections, based on weighted polling aggregates:
- Colorado- 52-47% Obama
- Florida- 50-49% Obama
- Indiana- 50-49% McCain
- Missouri- 49-49% Tied
- Nevada- 51-48% Obama
- New Hampshire- 53-45% Obama
- North Carolina- 50-49% Obama
- Ohio- 51-48% Obama
- Pennsylvania- 54-45% Obama
- Virginia- 53-47% Obama
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Last night, the Obama campaign spent some $3 million to air a 30-minute, nationwide commercial simultaneously on seven networks. In the “30-minute advertisement, which GOP nominee John McCain dismissed as a ‘gauzy, feel-good commercial,’ Obama aimed to etch a portrait as a candidate who understands the economic toll the nation is enduring and who would turn the page on the current administration…[t]he program ended with two minutes of live footage of Obama speaking to 20,000 cheering supporters in South Florida.” (WaPo)
Obama followed up the 30-minute spot with a late-night Florida rally where he campaigned for the first time alongside former President Clinton. (Miami Herald)
“After weeks of being out-advertised by Barack Obama, Republican presidential candidate John McCain and the Republican Party are nearly matching the Democratic nominee ad for ad in key battleground markets…Ad spending and ad placement data obtained from Democratic and Republican operatives show that in the closing days of the campaign the Republican voice has grown louder in states such as Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania.” (AP)
Appearing last night on Larry King, Senator McCain said about Obama’s infomercial: “[f]rankly, what’s disturbing about it is that [Obama] signed a piece of paper back when he was a longshot candidate,” McCain said. “And he signed it, said I won’t — I will take public financing for the presidential campaign if John McCain will. I mean, it’s a living document.”
“Among some of the 32 states that allow their residents to vote early without an excuse, either by mail or in person, the verdict is already in from a full quarter of registered voters — well into the millions. In some counties across the nation, the percentages are far higher.” (NYT)
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