What does all this mean? That Get Out the Vote efforts, the legal ones at least, are very important to Republicans. ACORN-style fraud efforts will continue and I think the public is wearying of Democrats useage of ACORN tactics to pad the numbers.
FL Men Drift to McCain, Sunshine State Stays Steady in SurveyUSA Tracking
In an election for President of the United States in Florida today, absentee balloting underway and early voting about to begin, Republican John McCain edges Democrat Barack Obama 49% to 47%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for WFLA-TV Tampa, WFOR-TV Miami, WKRG-TV Mobile-Pensacola, and WFTX-TV Cape Coral.
Compared to an identical SurveyUSA tracking poll 3 weeks ago, almost nothing has changed in the Florida data, at a time when the world has changed profoundly. Then, the Dow Jones was at 11,143. Today: 20% lower. Banks have failed, insurance companies have been nationalized. But smooth sailing on the Florida poll tracking graphs. True: men have swung 9 points to McCain since SurveyUSA’s last poll
There is slight movement to McCain in Southeast Florida, which includes Miami and Fort Lauderdale. There is offsetting movement to Obama in Central Florida, which includes Orlando, and in Southwest Florida, which includes Tampa. Unique to Florida, and unlike other states that SurveyUSA is polling: those in Florida who tell SurveyUSA they have already voted disproportionately back McCain. The sample size is small, so caution is warranted, but unlike SurveyUSA findings in Ohio, New Mexico, Georgia, Iowa, and North Carolina, where early voters disproportionately favor Obama, in Florida, McCain leads by 8 among those who have already voted, and is tied among those who have not yet cast a ballot but who are determined by SurveyUSA to be likely to do so.
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Ooooo, briefs, one recent poll shows McCain leading in Florida, and that shows Florida is moving towards McCain? Let's look at the other recent polls there:
Your poll was conducted on the 16th. For the week prior to that, here's the results:
SurveyUSA -- 10/16/08 -- McCain by 2
Times-Union/Sun-Sentinel -- 10/13-15/08 -- Obama by 4
Hamilton 10/10-15/08 -- Obama by 4
CNN/Time -- 10/11-14/08 -- Obama by 5
InsiderAdvantage 10/13/08 -- Obama by 4
Datamar -- 10/12-13/08 -- Obama by 5
Zogby -- 10/9-13/08 -- Obama by 1
Fox/Rasmussen -- 10/12/08 -- Obama by 5
Just figured your readers would want to see your poll in perspective...
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We'll agree then Andrew:
Obama has the national lead by roughly 3 points. McCain needs to make up ground in Virginia and Pennsylvania for electoral votes.
Florida and Ohio are tight, with one candidate winning one week and the other the following week. All makes for big fun for the next two weeks!
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