Julie, Check out the following at daily Kos. --------------------------------------------- Polling Open Thread III (Sun-Mon Edition) by DemFromCT Sun Oct 31st, 2004 at 22:45:16 GMT LV Two-way Tracking polls are here (Zogby and WMUR NH state trackers are lower on the page): Bush Kerry Zogby 48 48 Sunday TIPP 47 42 Sunday Rasmussen 48.1 47.1 Sunday WaPo 48 48 Sunday Fox 46 47 Sunday The tracking polls will be updated throughout the day. Here's an excellent analysis of the Zogby state trackers by Alan Abramowitz, pointing out that the movement in all the state polls suggest they're all showing sampling error noise and are too close to call from Zogby alone. The average correlation in the day-to-day movements between each state and the other nine states ranges from -.16 for Michigan to .02 for Pennsylvania. The average correlation across all 10 states is -.08. Since October 24 the mean shift in the margin between Kerry and Bush across the ten states has been exactly zero. In the past 2 days, the mean shift has been 0.2 points toward Kerry. Conclusion--there is nothing going on here. The day-to-day shifts in the Zogby state tracking polls, like the day-to-day shifts in the national tracking polls are basically random. Nonetheless, there is comforting news in the Zogby numbers here from today. Late Sunday, there was a Pew Poll showing no effect from the Bin Laden tape (now CW, btw) and a K46-B45 RV, B48-K45 LV spread (with allocation of undecideds by Pew special sauce). CBS/NY Times has Bush 49-46 (LV). The NBC/WSJ poll shows Bush 48 Kerry 47 Nader 1 LV (and no effect from the Bin laden tape) - no link yet. Gallup comes in at 49-49. Once again, that doesn't mean the polls suck. It means all the polls show tight races, Bush is below 50 (usually at 48) and that a GOTV turnout win for Kerry is beyond polling's ability to predict. General 2004 :: Link & Discuss (43 comments, 43 new) -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: image/tiff -- File: image.tiff -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: text/plain -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: image/tiff -- File: image.tiff -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: text/plain -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: image/tiff -- File: image.tiff -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: text/plain ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html