The audacity of hope, to coin a phrase
Ok. Maybe I"m a hope junkie. But as the campaign enters its final week, both the Gallup and the Rasmussen daily tracking polls show John McCain closing to within three percent of Barack Obama.
It should be noted that the Gallup poll still shows a 51%-44% Obama blowout using an expanded likely voter model, based only on current voter intentions and making no assumptions concerning voter turnout.
Dick Morris very reasonably expects the undecideds to vote for McCain; truly undecided voters this late in the campaign generally don't break for the leader.
But Gallup says that only four percent of voters are truly undecided at this stage, expressing no preference at all.
The bottom line: there's nothing wrong with hope- as long as it's born in mind that a McCain victory at this point is still a real long shot.
HT: Drudge
It should be noted that the Gallup poll still shows a 51%-44% Obama blowout using an expanded likely voter model, based only on current voter intentions and making no assumptions concerning voter turnout.
Dick Morris very reasonably expects the undecideds to vote for McCain; truly undecided voters this late in the campaign generally don't break for the leader.
But Gallup says that only four percent of voters are truly undecided at this stage, expressing no preference at all.
The bottom line: there's nothing wrong with hope- as long as it's born in mind that a McCain victory at this point is still a real long shot.
HT: Drudge
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