Posted October 7, 200817 yr comment_10712 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081007/pl_nm/...a_politics_poll Last night most polls were showing Obama with a 7-8% lead and now apparently it is down to 3% with a margin of error at approximately that 3%. Quite strange becuase just a day ago it seemed that Obama was taking a large lead. Most likely the narrowing of the gap is due to Palin performing better than expected in the VP debate. I am hoping it turns out to be a close election no matter who wins. I personally like close matchups, wheter in sports or anything else, and would rather neither one of these candidates win by a large margin and make it a boring election night. I personally am not a big believer in blindly treating polls as if they are true indicators of how the voting would go. But they are interesting, nonetheless. The second of three Presidential debates takes place here in Tennessee later tonight. edit: lol http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/06/pol...olls/index.html Notice the top headline on CNN says Obama widens the gap and shows it at 8%. That right there should show how meaningful polls are. One is showing it a virtual statistical tie and the other is showing a nearly double digit lead. CNN somehow manages to always show it as a bigger lead though.
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