Oliver Willis

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Polls Tightening!

October 31st, 2008 Barack Obama John McCain 5 Comments

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Sen. Obama is up by 8 in Gallup’s traditional voter model. That’s the most McCain friendly measure of the state of the race. Perhaps 30 minutes of prime time tv is a good thing for a candidate (duh!).

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5 Responses to “Polls Tightening!”

1. Bulworth says:

   October 31, 2008 at 12:29 pm

   This is obviously very good news for John McCain.
2. Michael says:

   October 31, 2008 at 12:44 pm

   The only tightening I see is this Arizona poll!

   Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 10/28-30. Likely voters. MoE 4% (No trend lines)

   McCain (R) 48
   Obama (D) 47

   Early voters (17 percent of sample)

   McCain (R) 42
   Obama (D) 54
3. Elvis Dingeldein says:

   October 31, 2008 at 1:09 pm

   Mr. The Oliver Willis – I just received word, via e-mail, that my father — a career US Army Intelligence officer and lifelong Republican living in what he calls the People’s Democratic Socialist Republic of Arlington (VA) — and his wife (whose father worked for Barry Goldwater) both voted, by absentee ballot, for Senator Obama. This made me weep with the first tears of joy I’ve shed since my daughter was born 7 years ago.

   This is why we’re going to win this thing. Even Hard Republicans are repudiating the gormless vapidity of Sarah Palin and the politics of fear. They only made up their minds a few days ago, but not out of mouthbreathing stupidity: they are genuinely tormented long-time Republicans struggling with the Decline and Fall of a party they love and once honored with their votes. And they’ve voted, early, for Obama.

   I make visits to their lovely home in Arlington conditional on a Fox News Blackout. I don’t require MSNBC running on a constant loop, but I cannot sit in their living room and suffer under the assault to Reason that is Fixed News. But when I’m not there, which is 50 weeks out of the year, my father and his wife live in a cocoon of Hannity and O’Reilly and their constant RNC Talking Pointery. These were not easy Republicans to sway. And yet, they’ve voted for Obama.

   There is Hope.
4. jr says:

   October 31, 2008 at 1:44 pm

   Matt Drudge is still singing his New Kids On The Block songs to McCain
5. hack says:

   October 31, 2008 at 4:39 pm

   There indeed has been a tightening… of the noose around McCain’s neck.