McCain Camp: It's A "Margin Of Error" Contest
Bill McInturff, lead pollster for John McCain's campaign, moved to discount the results of the Washington Post/ABC News survey out this morning showing Barack Obama has a nine-point lead, calling the poll an "unusual outlier that does not represent where this campaign is."
McInturff said an examination of September polling in the battleground states (using Real Clear Politics averages) shows McCain and Obama within the margin of error in the most competitive contests: CO, FL, MI, MN, MO, NV, NH, NC, OH, PA, VA and WI. McInturff argued that McCain was roughly one point ahead on average during the first week of the month, and Obama was up one the second week and over the last few days. McInturff called those results "remarkably stable."
The Washington Post/ABC News poll out today doesn't properly poll for party ID, he added. And he marked this survey as the second in the race to wildly miscast the contest; the other, he said, was a Los Angeles Times survey in June that showed McCain down 12.
"I don't think these results are at all indicative of what's happening in the campaign," McInturff said of the poll out today. He added: "We're functionally tied in the electoral college."
(JENNIFER SKALKA)
Yeah, that ABC poll is something like Dem+10. No way that's right. It was Dem+4 in the "landslide" of '06!
Rasmussen and Gallup seem to be the best polling groups anything else just don't stand the test of time.
Methinks Palin is starting to look like the GOP's answer to Geraldine Ferraro