Another day another 5% Obama lead
July 4, 2008Well actually it’s a 5.05% lead but who’s counting?
My new national projections are:
Barack Obama 49
John McCain 43.95
I don’t know what is more strange; McCain’s utterly aparthetic style of campaigning or the fact that despite all that, and despite Obama’s move to the centre McCain is still within spitting distance of the Audacity of Hype (sorry, Senator Obama). Part of me wishes Obama were racking up double digit leads because that would have forced McCain to make some real changes to his campaign’s strategy rather than tinkering with the organisation. In any case any sensible person would think that Rick Davis’s days are now pretty much numbered, but I have been saying that for a while now.
NOTE: My methodology for my detailed polling projections involves collating all the available polls of likely voters and then filtering them through Samplemiser, a Kalman filter. I only used polls of likely voters and I get my data from pollster.com.
At the risk of sounding presumptuous, shouldn’t you be polling Obama’s lead over McCain?
I don’t think there are very many outlets portraying Obama as the underdog in their polling.