Burning: Election Polls

Basically, as of Saturday, the most recent poll was the Rasmussen poll of Sept. 28 so all polls centered on the range Sep. 22-28 counted.

State polls and articles by leading pollsters and analysts are available to subscribers.

Voter registration is one of the key battlegrounds of this election although it is under the radar for many people as it operates through tables at shopping malls, campuses, and street corners, one voter at a time.

Democrats are working overtime in cities, especially on college campuses and in poor areas.

This district is D+4, which conceivably could go for McCain, but in this political climate, he has his work cut out for him winning all the Republican districts.

They suggest that Virginia is within the margin of error despite two other polls that show Obama ahead by double digits.

Gallup Tracking: Obama 50, McCain 42.

Today is the last day you can register to vote in 21 states.

CQ Politics has an article on the cabinet and also an interactive Web page where you can assemble a cabinet for either candidate from their list of plausible picks and then email your cabinet to friends.

Rasmussen Reports has some McCain friendly polling results released today.

Rasmussen Reports’ polls would still crown Obama as our next president by about 150 electoral votes.

They have Ohio pegged as a dead heat despite the fact that Obama is widely considered to be about 5% ahead which is about where ABC has the race.

In many states, absentee and early voting has already started.

Q Voters will also elect a United States Senator.

Undoubtedly this low approval of Congress is closely related to popular anger at Congress giving $700 billion of the taxpayers money to Wall St. firms that made horrible business decisions and now got Uncle Sam to pick up the tab.

As Yogi Berra put it: “It ain’t over ’till it’s over” and this election is certainly not over, but people are already starting to think about who might be in Obama’s cabinet or McCain’s cabinet.

The other district that might go in a different direction from its state is ME-02, which is nearly all of Maine except a little piece in the south where most of the people live.

For example, Pollster.com lists all polls including partisan ones.

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In addition, three Republican senators from states with Democratic governors are up for reelection: Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. John Sununu.