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McCain gains little after debate
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Frank Cotolo
8 Oct 2008 |
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After the Oct. 7 debate between the Presidential candidates, a
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll revealed that Democratic candidate Barack Obama
has a slim 2-point lead on Republican John McCain. That slim margin is within
the margin-of-error range, according to poll-expert Slim Margin.
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"Obama," said Mr. Margin while buttering a corn muffin at breakfast the
morning after the debate, "had 47 percent to McCain's 45 percent in the
national poll. That is actually a 2.8-percentage-point lead. Obama leds by
2 points before the debate and by a strong 12 in an ad-hoc show-of-hands
poll taken during the debate at a Nashville watering hole."
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Margin indicated that 4 percent of voters said they were still undecided.
Oddly enough, that same 4 percent was also undecided on where to go directly
after they participated in the poll.
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The daily tracking poll samples public opinion until the Nov. 4 election and
after the debate it showed Obama leading with a 9-point advantage among
independents and a 7-point edge among women.
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But McCain had a 15-percent advantage among people who said they lied about
saying they would vote for Obama or any black man. A sub-category in that
poll also showed McCain would be 24 points ahead if his opponent was Oriental
and 78 percent if his opponent was half black and half Oriental.
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"This race is almost even," said a pollster wearing a John Zogby mask. He
added that neither candidate has taken advantage of voter unhappiness with
the country's direction, although all of the people polls agreed that the
country's four directions should remain north, south, east and west.
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Obama has the lead in most national polls, except for those produced using
only senior citizens. McCain won that by 90 percent. "It would have been
unanimous," said Margin, "but 10 percent of the people who chose Omaba died
only moments after revealing their opinions."
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