Gallup Tracking Poll Thread [Obama vs McCain]

[Wall St. Wiz]

I'm not getting my hopes up.  When the 700 point Dow slide and the debate make their way into the polls tomorrow, I expect Obama to get a 2 point bounce tomorrow.

[Wall St. Wiz]

I'm not getting my hopes up.  When the 700 point Dow slide and the debate make their way into the polls tomorrow, I expect Obama to get a 2 point bounce tomorrow.

Wouldn't the 700 point slide already be factored into these polls?

Yeah how about today's 400 point gain?

Yeah it is partially factored in, but I think the media coverage at night when people get home from work and in the papers the next morning do have an effect that takes more then one day to see in the polls.

[Wall St. Wiz]

Welp..that's a kick to the nuts

[Wall St. Wiz]

It just gets worse and worse, this is brutal.  I am going to get myself hammered on election night so I won't feel the pain that will be unfolding in front of my eyes.

[Wall St. Wiz]

It just gets worse and worse, this is brutal.  I am going to get myself hammered on election night so I won't feel the pain that will be unfolding in front of my eyes.

Can you keep that up for 4 years?

I won't have to.  The Republican party always does better as the minority party unfortunately.  In a way I am looking forward to the Democrats being in control of everything.  It's all their in their court now, they will get the blame or credit for everything.  The pressure is on them.  No more Bush to kick around.  I basically feel like there is no where to go from this point but up.  The expectations for Obama are huge, there is no way he can live up to them.

We'll have to rebuild the way we did after 1992, and the way the Dems did after 2004.  We are going to have to "find our voice again".  I have faith that the American people are not going to like this experiment with socialism that is coming. 

[Wall St. Wiz]

Well here is the McCain spin of the day, fed to Rich Lowry, who is glad Christopher Buckley resigned from NR:

"The McCain campaign says their internal polling still shows tightening, and their track shows them down three in the swing states. Fwiw..."

I just heard Gingrich say the same thing, according to the internals McCain is gaining ground in the battleground states and is now within striking distance in all of them.

Not sure how to take that, as it implies that he is currently behind in all of them.

[Wall St. Wiz]

Brutal numbers the last two days for McCain in the trackers, Zogby aside.  I think the informercial gave him a bump as I expected.  Oh well, I resigned myself to a McCain loss a long time ago.