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Gallup Tracker: McCain By 5

By Big Tent Democrat

For the fourth day in a row, the Gallup tracking poll has McCain up, now 48-43:

The Sept. 7-9 average -- spanning interviewing conducted Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday -- finds little substantive change in the shape of the race compared to earlier this week, although each of the two candidate's level of support has dropped a point compared to the Tuesday's reported average. Nine percent of registered voters say they are undecided, refuse to state their preference, say they will vote for neither McCain nor Obama, or indicate they are voting for another candidate.

Here is a strange demographic factoid from Gallup's poll - Obama leads among women 49-42 while trailing among men by 49-44. And yet Gallup has McCain up 5. In a word, that simply is incredible. This Gallup poll seems faulty to me.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 10, 2008 (boomark / email).