Zogby Poll: McCain Recovers as Contest Takes Dramatic Turns (McCain +2)

[Wretched Excess]

UTICA, New York - Republican John McCain's poll numbers improved slightly as he suspended his campaign Wednesday to head back to Washington to focus on the looming national financial crisis, moving from more than three points behind Barack Obama last weekend to two points ahead in a Zogby Interactive survey just out of the field this morning.

Data from this poll is available here

What is still unknown is what will happen to the first presidential debate in Mississippi, which had been set for Friday evening but which has been put on hold by the McCain campaign. The sponsor of the debate and the Obama campaign insist the debate will go on.

Both surveys of likely voters nationwide were conducted using Zogby's online polling technology, which has proven accurate in national and statewide races dating back to 2004.

McCain now leads Obama, 45.8% to 43.8%, the survey shows.

The Horserace
 Sept. 23/25
 Sept. 19/20
 
Obama
 43.8%
 46.8%
 
McCain
 45.8%
 43.4%
 
Not sure/Other
 10.4%
 8.8%
 

The big shift in the race appears to have come among independent voters, where McCain now leads by nine points, 43% to 34%. In the survey conducted over the weekend, Obama led by one point among independents.

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http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1562

**WE altered title of merged thread to reflect poll margin **

[Wretched Excess]

zogby is totally in the tank for the dems, and his interactive polls are notoriously inaccurate . . . but it
makes the abcnews poll look like an obvious outlier.

Zogby Poll: McCain Recovers as Contest Takes Dramatic Turns
First presidential debate still up in the air as campaigns shuffle schedules

UTICA, New York - Republican John McCain's poll numbers improved slightly as he suspended his campaign Wednesday to head back to Washington to focus on the looming national financial crisis, moving from more than three points behind Barack Obama last weekend to two points ahead in a Zogby Interactive survey just out of the field this morning.

What is still unknown is what will happen to the first presidential debate in Mississippi, which had been set for Friday evening but which has been put on hold by the McCain campaign. The sponsor of the debate and the Obama campaign insist the debate will go on.

Both surveys of likely voters nationwide were conducted using Zogby's online polling technology, which has proven accurate in national and statewide races dating back to 2004.

McCain now leads Obama, 45.8% to 43.8%, the survey shows.

The big shift in the race appears to have come among independent voters, where McCain now leads by nine points, 43% to 34%. In the survey conducted over the weekend, Obama led by one point among independents.

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[Wretched Excess]

LOL, Bijou.  you beat me by 20 seconds.   I am going to alter the thread title to reflect the poll margin.

[bijou]

I have decided to start 'Bijou's Acme Polling'. Each day I shall post the names of the Presidential candidates next to a random number between 40 and 55 such that the sum of the two figures is a number between 90 and 99.  It seems to me that I could be just as enlightening as many other polls. 

[Wretched Excess]

Overall, the interactive survey, conducted Sept. 23-25, 2008, included 4,752 likely voters nationwide and carries a margin of error of +/- 1.5 percentage points.

if this poll is to be believed, mccain suspending his campaign was received very favorably by the electorate.

[bijou]

Gallup Daily: Race Back to a Tie at 46% EachMcCain now on equal footing with Obama

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110668/Gallup-Daily-Race-Back-Tie-46-Each.aspx

[Wretched Excess]

Gallup Daily: Race Back to a Tie at 46% EachMcCain now on equal footing with Obama

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110668/Gallup-Daily-Race-Back-Tie-46-Each.aspx

and to think that every MSM outlet this morning led the story about mccain suspending his campaign with a
phrase resembling, "sliding in the polls and struggling on the campaign trail . . . "

what a difference a day (and a couple of polls that AREN'T thoroughly SCREWED up) makes. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Overall, the interactive survey, conducted Sept. 23-25, 2008, included 4,752 likely voters nationwide and carries a margin of error of +/- 1.5 percentage points.

if this poll is to be believed, mccain suspending his campaign was received very favorably by the electorate.

As well it should be...a true act of leadership in crisis, I must say, despite my dissatisfaction with many of his past policy stances.   

[Wretched Excess]

Overall, the interactive survey, conducted Sept. 23-25, 2008, included 4,752 likely voters nationwide and carries a margin of error of +/- 1.5 percentage points.

if this poll is to be believed, mccain suspending his campaign was received very favorably by the electorate.

As well it should be...a true act of leadership in crisis, I must say, despite my dissatisfaction with many of his past policy stances.   

the current MSM spin is that the "deal" that was reached (that wasn't a "deal" at all) "deflated" mccain's "campaign tactic".  that was from an ABC news affiliate in chicago, I believe.  but that was fairly exemplary of what I am seeing out there.

[Tess Anderson]

The MSM is widely perceived to be biased, they've shot their own credibility, maybe for forever.

Zogby is just too volatile for me, but I agree with what he just said to a bunch of his fellow Democrats:

The presidential election might be a tight race now, but one of the country’s top pollsters thinks the race will end in an electoral landslide.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20080925/NEWS01/80925009/1002/NEWS

I think that will be the inevitable outcome as well.

[franksolich]

I'm not God, and anything can happen the next five weeks, but there's a reason I've always called him "Barry 'Six States' Obama."

[Hawkgirl]

I'm not God, and anything can happen the next five weeks, but there's a reason I've always called him "Barry 'Six States' Obama."

 

[Jim]

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20080925/NEWS01/80925009/1002/NEWSa little Zogby follow on story


The presidential election might be a tight race now, but one of the country’s top pollsters thinks the race will end in an electoral landslide.

John Zogby, president of Zogby International, told a group of businesspeople today that it’s up to Democratic Sen. Barack Obama to convince voters to go with him. If he’s not successful, the country will likely vote for “a comfortable old shoe”, that being Republican Sen. John McCain.

Despite the books Obama has written, Americans are still asking, “Who are you, where are you from?,” Zogby said.

Zogby spoke at the College at Brockport’s Business Briefings breakfast series at the college’s MetroCenter campus on St. Paul Street. He was promoting his new book, The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report of the Transformation of the American Dream.

[SaintLouieWoman]

Overall, the interactive survey, conducted Sept. 23-25, 2008, included 4,752 likely voters nationwide and carries a margin of error of +/- 1.5 percentage points.

if this poll is to be believed, mccain suspending his campaign was received very favorably by the electorate.

As well it should be...a true act of leadership in crisis, I must say, despite my dissatisfaction with many of his past policy stances.   

For a long time I've been calling McCain a RINO. I won't back off that oo much, but have grudgingly been starting to admire him.

That msm sniping at him got me sick. I believe he truly does put country first.

[Woody]

For a long time I've been calling McCain a RINO. I won't back off that oo much, but have grudgingly been starting to admire him.

That msm sniping at him got me sick. I believe he truly does put country first.

Ditto.  I may not believe exactly what McCain believes, but I think he is one of the few national political figures who comes by his opinions honestly. 

[Duke Nukum]

Overall, the interactive survey, conducted Sept. 23-25, 2008, included 4,752 likely voters nationwide and carries a margin of error of +/- 1.5 percentage points.

if this poll is to be believed, mccain suspending his campaign was received very favorably by the electorate.

As well it should be...a true act of leadership in crisis, I must say, despite my dissatisfaction with many of his past policy stances.   

For a long time I've been calling McCain a RINO. I won't back off that oo much, but have grudgingly been starting to admire him.

That msm sniping at him got me sick. I believe he truly does put country first.

I think McCain has always and will always put McCain first but at least we got a Sarah Palin out of it.  Occasionally, he will have to do the right thing in his own self interest even when his instinct says to betray his own base.