Opinion: Two national polls depict starkly different Obama/McCain race

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.

From the polls-as-an-imprecise-science department (with an emphasis on the ‘imprecise’):

Today’s updated daily tracking poll from the Gallup organization: Barack Obama up by 11 percentage points over John McCain, 52% to 41%.

Today’s updated tracking poll for the National Journal’s Hotline (based on data collected over the same period, Sunday through Monday): a virtual tie, with Obama up by only 1 point, 45% to 44%.

For a compendium of these and other recent national polls (all of which show a closer race than Gallup), see here.

-- Don Frederick

Don’t forget, polls or no polls you can still go to Twitter and sign up for free automatic and instant alerts of every new Ticket item sped directly to your cell.