{"id":12832,"date":"2008-09-19T19:54:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T02:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/09\/19\/poll-positions-2.html"},"modified":"2008-09-19T19:54:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T02:54:32","slug":"poll_positions_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/poll_positions_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Poll positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been staying away from the polls for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/poll_position_2.html\" target=\"_blank\">a bit<\/a>, given the lag effect of the RNC. Things are supposedly trending back &#8220;good,&#8221; but remain tight.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electionprojection.com\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">ElectionProjection.com<\/a>: <strong><span><strong>Obama 273<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>, McCain 265<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/evp2008\/Pres\/Maps\/Sep09.html\" target=\"_blank\">Electoral-vote.com<\/a>: Obama 252, <strong><span><strong>McCain 265<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>, Ties 21<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\" target=\"_blank\">FiveThirtyEight.com<\/a>: <strong>Obama 293<\/strong>, McCain 245<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/pollster.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pollster.com<\/a>: <strong>Obama 243<\/strong>, McCain 179, Toss-up 116<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.270towin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">270ToWin.com<\/a>: <strong>Obama 197<\/strong>, McCain 178, Swing 163<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldheartedtruth.com\/politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">ColdHeartedTruth.com<\/a>: <strong>Obama 273<\/strong>, McCain 265<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwissing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hedgehog Report<\/a>: <strong>Obama 289<\/strong>, McCain 249<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/federalreview.com\" target=\"_blank\">FederalReview.com<\/a>: Obama 228, <strong>McCain 247<\/strong>, Tossup 63<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/3bluedudes.com\/ProjectDatabase.htm\" target=\"_blank\">3 Blue Dudes<\/a>: Obama 212, <strong>McCain 227<\/strong>, Tossup 102<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, the results are clearly all over the map. The differentiator seems to be mostly in the marginal states, in deciding (or declining to) which way they are going to jump.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, at least, it looks to be a pretty tight race.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The 3 Blue Dudes page has an even bigger summary of the results (in a table) at the top of their page, showing even more sites than the above. More sites are showing Obama up (and going up) than McCain. For whatever that&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been staying away from the polls for a bit, given the lag effect of the RNC. Things are supposedly trending back &#8220;good,&#8221; but remain tight. ElectionProjection.com: Obama 273, McCain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12768,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/01\/electoral_college_watch_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":12832,"position":0},"title":"Electoral College Watch","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Oct-08 8:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a couple of weeks since I've reported on the current electoral college predictions, waiting first for the debate, then for the bailout bit to finally percolate into the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13672,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/electoral_college_watch_4.html","url_meta":{"origin":12832,"position":1},"title":"Electoral college watch","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Oct-08 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"A week later\u00a0(and a week before The Big Day), here we are. 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