No, there's legitimately no interesting numbers out. And for the record, any time McCain has shown strong numbers that were followed up by a trend, I've said it.letsgocards89 wrote:Sounds like McCain must be doing well today.PujolJunkie wrote:You know what? I think there should be serious, serious indepth reporting into the history of President's not being able to bowl.Jocephus wrote:jesus can't hit a curveball and barack can't throw a strike (bowling)
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That being said, I'm disappointed with the lack of interesting polling today. Maybe at 5, something good will come of it all. I've yet to check the schedule for releases.
If you really want to know that Obama is up an extra point or two in Minnesota or Michigan or that McCain is holding steady in West Virginia, by all means I'll go out of my way to post a makeshift poll update. But there's been virtually nothing in the battleground states as far as polling goes, which is what I meant my interesting. Michigan, West Virginia, New Jersey, Oregon and Minnesota aren't noteworthy.
McCain is holding at +3 in Missouri, which has been his trend for a while now. Obama had somewhat of an advantage a week ago, but it's naturally tightened and McCain is up 3 per Politico. However, it shows Obama getting just 65% of the black vote, which is way way off the national trend. Factor that, it may be McCain +2 or +1, but it's still a statistical lead.
Strategic Vision is showing a 5 point lead in Pennsylvania for Obama, but the tracker shows +10 and double digits is still the mark. Not to mention the fact that Strategic Vision has a 2 to 3 point (R) lead and they are a self proclaimed Republican pollster. Just as PPP has a Democratic lean. Both are good pollsters, but they just have a slight lean due to Party ID.
Going back to your comment that "McCain must be doing well today" because I noted nothing interesting was happened, here's an update:
If you classify that as McCain "doing well," then he's been doing well for over a month now. I don't know whether your comment was snark or blue font worthy, but at the very least, I've been objective about the polls I post because you can't spin numbers too much. Everything I've posted has come straight from Silver at 538 or a pollster themselves.
My disappointment comes with the fact that Monday and Thursday are the strongest polling days of the week. And for their to be no real in depth polling today, that's a disappointment. It has nothing to do with McCain having a good day. He hasn't had one of those for a month straight.
