http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
As I mentioned last night in the other thread, the USA Today/Gallup poll has more often than not been a little off base. Its margin of error is + or - 3 points, which is well outside the average of the other polls in the same timeframe.
Average including USA Today/Gallup poll: McCain +2.9
Average excluding that poll: McCain +1.7
| RCP Average | 09/05 - 09/07 | -- | 48.3 | 45.4 | McCain +2.9 |
| ABC News/Wash Post | 09/05 - 09/07 | LV | 49 | 47 | McCain +2 |
| CBS News | 09/05 - 09/07 | 655 RV | 46 | 44 | McCain +2 |
| USA Today/Gallup | 09/05 - 09/07 | 823 LV | 54 | 44 | McCain +10 |
| CNN | 09/05 - 09/07 | 942 RV | 48 | 48 | Tie |
| Rasmussen Tracking | 09/05 - 09/07 | 3000 LV | 48 | 47 | McCain +1 |
| Hotline/FD Tracking | 09/05 - 09/07 | 924 RV | 44 | 44 | Tie |
| Gallup Tracking | 09/05 - 09/07 | 2733 RV | 49 | 44 | McCain +5 |
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
