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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (50859)	10/9/2008 6:44:04 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224705

Pollster: Don’t believe the Dem hype By Joe Dwinell & Jessica Fargen, bostonherald.com October 8, 2008 The presidential race is still too close to call and could come down to the very last weekend before voters decide if they like or distrust Barack Obama, a national pollster predicts. “I don’t think Obama has closed the deal yet,” pollster John Zogby told the Herald yesterday. Zogby’s latest poll, released yesterday in conjunction with C-Span and Reuters, shows Obama and John McCain in a statistical dead heat, with the Illinois Democrat up 48-45 percent. Zogby said the race mirrors the 1980 election, when voters didn’t embrace Ronald Reagan over then-President Jimmy Carter until just days before the election. “The Sunday before the election the dam burst,” Zogby said of the 1980 tilt. “That’s when voters determined they were comfortable with Reagan.” Now voters are wrestling with two senators with opposite resumes - Obama, at 47, the unknown, and the established 72-year-old McCain. Zogby said he’s still hearing from moderates and non-partisan voters - what he calls “the big middle” - who are still shopping for a candidate. “It still can break one way or the other,” Zogby says. The Numbers The three-day survey polled 1,220 likely voters - about 400 people a day. Zogby will continuously poll right up until the November election. The latest poll numbers may reflect the bump that McCain received after his running mate, Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin sparred with Obama’s running mate, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden during the first and only vice presidential debate last week. The poll shows that the two White House contenders have no problem attracting support from their own parties. news.bostonherald.com