The Republican has outpolled the Democrat each day since the GOP's convention ended, the Gallup Poll reports today.
''by Mark Silva
John McCain has established "a stable lead for now'' - and don't those five words say everything about the campaign underway? - according to the Gallup Poll's report today of its daily tracking surveys this week.
McCain continues to ride a "post-convention bounce,'' Gallup reports of the 48-44 percentage point advantage that McCain holds over Barack Obama in its daily survey of registered voters. The margin of error is 2 percentage points.
The Republican has shown "a statistically significant lead'' over Obama in each of the last four days' rolling three-day averages of surveys, Gallup notes. Since Sept. 5, the fist day following the Republican National Convention, McCain has outpolled Obama in the Gallup track.
"That consistent pattern in the night-to-night data suggests that McCain has a stable lead for now,'' Gallup's Jeff Jones notes of McCain's "best performance since late April and early May, when he was ahead of Obama in eight consecutive Gallup Poll Daily tracking reports.''
The two candidates have stood down today, on the anniversary of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, Gallup notes.
But McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, is weighing in with two nights of interviews on ABC News - starting tonight - and it will be interesting to see what impact Palin's probably widely watched appearance has on the daily tracks. She is shipping her son off to war. His name is Track.







Comments
Remember when former President Bush was leading Governor Bill Clinton, by 6%, with weeks to go, before their election. The rest his history. The only poll that really matters is the one on November 4th. Keep discussing the issues, Senator Obama, let the Bush-McCain Republicans discuss the lipstick. That is sure to garner more vote for those " straight talking " Republicans !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | September 11, 2008 1:42 PM
Remember
Bill Clinton was a man
Not a FLIP FLOP-
Posted by: George | September 11, 2008 1:54 PM
As an Obama supporter I now believe that his "lipstick on a pig" comment will further sink his chances for the Presidency. I am just puzzles as to why he would chose the lipstick quote only a week after Gov. Palin used the same word referring to herself in front of 50,000,000 viewers. I am so mad with Barack. First, he failed to pick Hillary and now this? The Obama campaign is now a train wreck. Sad, very sad.
Posted by: Bradley Washington | September 11, 2008 1:58 PM
The most interesting numbers I've seen is Karl Rove's electoral map. McCain is in trouble. Maybe the Swamp can talk about that data.
Posted by: jackson | September 11, 2008 2:01 PM
Remeber Bill Clinton was an experienced govenor-
No a FLIP FLOP
Posted by: George | September 11, 2008 2:02 PM
I am in a panic. Historically, Gallop has only been wrong twice in calling the election, first time with truman and the other with Regan. Historically the person who leads the gallop poll in sept, wins! These are pure facts and we should be in a panic, obama need to hit hard and he has maybe a week to change this!
Posted by: mario | September 11, 2008 2:07 PM
Look at the cute Republicans pretending to be panicked Democrats. What a pathetic strategy. How about you talk about our banking system meltdown Republicans. Maybe you have a plan to change things, maybe you want to continue Bush's policies. Americans are looking for leadership, not childish games and manufactured outrage over benign idioms.
Posted by: jackson | September 11, 2008 2:31 PM
another thing of note - when i saw the figure, the 1st impression was not that gop lead was stable. there was a 1% gain. and this is a week after when gop had a bounce and pulled all their punches with sarah palin's been headlined all this time.
so i thought obama was holding his own and potentially bouncing back on his own.
Posted by: theo | September 11, 2008 2:33 PM
One of McCains-Palin best assets is they address the voters as fellow AMERICANS NO AS MORONS AS OBAMA DOES-
Know good and well nor most Democrats aren't morons
Posted by: LoAm | September 11, 2008 2:55 PM
Why is it when McCain made the same remark About Lip Sick .the GOP never a big fuss about it ,but now that Barack has mention the same thing the GOP are raining Mc Cain . Kinda like putting you own foot in your big mouth.
Posted by: connie | September 11, 2008 3:30 PM
"She is shipping her son off to war. His name is Track."
Typical media infantilization of the military.
Parents do not send their sons to war. In a professional military, adults sign up to serve.
But that recognition of reality would interfere with the author's carefully calibrated worldview.
Posted by: jld | September 11, 2008 3:48 PM
Republicans pounce and feast on quotes taken out of context, and those who are swayed by such things are simply irresponsible voters. The Republicans use sensationalism to distract from topics things that really matter. They make Americans forget that they should be voting for intelligent and capable leaders who can address the nation's enormous problems. That's it. The election is not an episode of America's next Top Model.
Posted by: Dubbed | September 11, 2008 4:39 PM
One of McCains-Palin best assets is they address the voters as fellow AMERICANS NO AS MORONS AS OBAMA DOES-
Know good and well nor most Democrats aren't morons
Posted by: LoAm | September 11, 2008 2:55 PM
Who are you kidding. The "great" Americans only believe those that follow their failed policies are true Americans. Why does the GOP hate America? All of America.
Posted by: bill r. | September 11, 2008 5:12 PM
Let us be civilised and not insult each other. We need to pray for our country. For myself I am a McCain supporter. But I have all the respect for Obama supporters as well. We need not a new president but a fresh prespective for Jesus. He is the only one that can save this nation.
Posted by: Paul | September 11, 2008 8:08 PM
We sure do need a new President, not an old one, wrapped in a different image. I wish there were more Senator McCain supporters that were like you, in the sense of respecting Senator Obama. Instead, there are a pack of chihuahuas masquerading as pit-bulls, attacking Senator Obama for having on a different sports coat, today. We are electing a President, not a make-up artist !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | September 11, 2008 10:06 PM
Mr. NObama made a horrible choice in not choosing Hillary Clinton as a running mate. Now, there is a woman in the Republican Party. Oh, not just any woman, but a very Palin one who NObama is viciously attacking because he feels threaten. Why would anybody worried and attacked an opponent unless he, in this case SHE, is a real threat? I don't see McCain worrying about Nobama vice president choice. Hm, What's his name anyway? My support and prayers for McCain/Palin all the way to the way to the White House.
Posted by: arely | September 12, 2008 1:46 AM
Don Fitzgerald: Obama sent 31 lawyers, investigators,driveby media types in the tank for the messianic one to Alaska to dig dirt on Governor Palin and we are pitbulls.
It is Obama who said if the Republicans are bringing a knife to the fight I will bring a gun.
I don't think if you weren't getting paid you would be with this jerk.
Obama is not special he is a Chicago thug politician even Bill Clinton could say that. Wakeup Fitz! Jerry White, Springfield, IL
Posted by: Jerry White | September 12, 2008 8:15 AM
Why do you GOP supporters continue to want to decay America?
Posted by: Roy | September 13, 2008 1:17 AM