ICYMI: WH Cands Running Close In CO, MI, MN And WI
New Quinnipiac University polling for washingtonpost.com and the Wall Street Journal shows the battleground contests tight and largely unchanged in the last month.
Per washingtonpost.com's Cillizza:
In Colorado, Obama takes 49 percent to 45 percent for McCain while in Michigan Obama stands at 48 percent as compared to 44 percent for McCain. The contest in Minnesota, once considered a lock for Obama, is also quite close with Obama at 47 percent and McCain 45 percent. Only in Wisconsin does Obama have an edge -- 49 percent to 42 percent -- outside the statistical margin of error for the poll.
Those results are remarkably similar to data from July Quinnipiac polls in each of the four states and suggest that despite the massive media coverage surrounding the two parties' national nominating conventions as well as the vice presidential selections -- especially that of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, which many presumed would alter the campaign's dynamic -- little has changed in the race for the White House.
One would not expect to change if liberal pollsters vary their sample size to increase dem and independent samples in their polls while undercounting republican respondents. So if libs wake up with an election hangover, the fault does not lie with the republicans or the nation but in the pollsters egregious sampling techniques.