President McCain
Now that I have your attention.
It kind of has a nice ring to it:
Right now, it’s only on Drudge, and … well, it’s Zogby. Still, it’s going in the direction we all believed the race was heading:
ZOGBY SATURDAY: Republican John McCain has pulled back within the margin of error… McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters.
What are we to make of polls that can’t even come close to identifying a clear trend. Is Obama up by ten or down by one?
My guess is that there are isolated pockets of voters who are strongly committed to either ticket—Obama inspires one side, Palin the other—and the results are dependent on which pockets the pollsters hit, and how deeply into them they reach. But if McCain is making gains among independents, and if his (or Palin’s) supporters really commit to him, the Zogby number just might be believable—and sustainable on election day. (The state-by-state polls are not, however, following this same trend—at least not yet.)
I read somewhere that McCain plans to outspend Obama over the last weekend, in pursuit of the theory that undecideds don’t decide until the last 72 hours. Let it be so.