MO: Rasmussen: Obama leads by 6

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State polls lag by a week or so. Lets wait a week to see where we are at then.

Umm... this poll was conducted on Wednesday. Not last week. Not the week before.

Exactly and Wednesday is when this race started to tighten. Wait until next week.

You're not making any sense. Why would a state poll, taken on the same day as a national poll, be expected not to reflect that day's national poll but the national poll from one week ago?

[emailking]

State polls lag by a week or so. Lets wait a week to see where we are at then.

Umm... this poll was conducted on Wednesday. Not last week. Not the week before.

Exactly and Wednesday is when this race started to tighten. Wait until next week.

You're not making any sense. Why would a state poll, taken on the same day as a national poll, be expected not to reflect that day's national poll but the national poll from one week ago?

Because it has been shown time and time again that the state polls do lag.

One explanation could be the bandwagon effect. There's no rational reason I can conceive why the state poll is somehow obsolete because the picture changes in the national poll. The "tightening" you are talking about has also been within the margin of error.