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| Poll | Date | Sample | MoE | McCain (R) | Obama (D) | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final Results | -- | -- | -- | 52.2 | 47.0 | McCain +5.2 |
| RCP Average | 10/28 - 11/02 | -- | -- | 49.8 | 45.8 | McCain +4.0 |
| InAdv/PollPosition | 11/02 - 11/02 | 512 LV | 4.0 | 48 | 47 | McCain +1 |
| SurveyUSA | 10/30 - 11/02 | 683 LV | 3.8 | 52 | 45 | McCain +7 |
| Rasmussen | 10/30 - 10/30 | 500 LV | 4.5 | 52 | 47 | McCain +5 |
| Research 2000 | 10/28 - 10/30 | 600 LV | 4.0 | 47 | 44 | McCain +3 |
- The Failure of Big Government Conservatism - Ralph Reiland, American Spectator
- Goodbye Reagan Democrats - Stan Greenberg, New York Times
- Was Last Week's Vote a Realignment? - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics
- The New Liberalism - George Packer, The New Yorker
- The McCain I Know - Mark Salter, The Daily Beast
| Poll | Date | Sample | MoE | McCain (R) | Obama (D) | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final Results | -- | -- | -- | 52.2 | 47.0 | McCain +5.2 |
| RCP Average | 10/28 - 11/02 | -- | -- | 49.8 | 45.8 | McCain +4.0 |
| InAdv/PollPosition | 11/02 - 11/02 | 512 LV | 4.0 | 48 | 47 | McCain +1 |
| SurveyUSA | 10/30 - 11/02 | 683 LV | 3.8 | 52 | 45 | McCain +7 |
| Strategic Vision (R) | 10/31 - 11/02 | 800 LV | 3.0 | 50 | 46 | McCain +4 |
| PPP (D) | 10/31 - 11/02 | 1253 LV | 2.8 | 50 | 48 | McCain +2 |
| Rasmussen | 10/30 - 10/30 | 500 LV | 4.5 | 52 | 47 | McCain +5 |
| Research 2000 | 10/28 - 10/30 | 600 LV | 4.0 | 47 | 44 | McCain +3 |
| InAdv/PollPosition | 10/27 - 10/27 | 637 LV | 3.8 | 48 | 47 | McCain +1 |
| CNN/Time | 10/23 - 10/28 | 690 LV | 3.5 | 52 | 47 | McCain +5 |
| NBC/Mason-Dixon | 10/22 - 10/23 | 625 LV | 4.0 | 49 | 43 | McCain +6 |
| InAdv/PollPosition | 10/23 - 10/23 | 615 LV | 3.8 | 47 | 48 | Obama +1 |
| Rasmussen | 10/22 - 10/22 | 500 LV | 4.5 | 51 | 46 | McCain +5 |
| Strategic Vision (R) | 10/20 - 10/22 | 800 LV | 3.0 | 51 | 45 | McCain +6 |
| Research 2000 | 10/14 - 10/15 | 600 LV | 4.0 | 49 | 43 | McCain +6 |
| CNN/Time | 10/11 - 10/14 | 718 LV | 3.5 | 53 | 45 | McCain +8 |
| SurveyUSA | 10/11 - 10/12 | 547 LV | 4.3 | 51 | 43 | McCain +8 |
| InAdv/PollPosition | 10/09 - 10/09 | 531 LV | 4.0 | 49 | 46 | McCain +3 |
| Rasmussen | 10/07 - 10/07 | 500 LV | 4.5 | 54 | 45 | McCain +9 |
| Strategic Vision (R) | 10/05 - 10/07 | 800 LV | 3.0 | 50 | 43 | McCain +7 |
| Research 2000 | 09/29 - 10/01 | 600 LV | 4.0 | 50 | 43 | McCain +7 |
| InAdv/PollPosition | 09/30 - 09/30 | 561 LV | 4.0 | 50 | 44 | McCain +6 |
| SurveyUSA | 09/28 - 09/29 | 677 LV | 3.8 | 52 | 44 | McCain +8 |
| InAdv/PollPosition | 09/17 - 09/17 | 503 LV | 4.3 | 51 | 43 | McCain +8 |
| SurveyUSA | 09/14 - 09/16 | 684 LV | 3.8 | 57 | 41 | McCain +16 |
| Rasmussen | 09/16 - 09/16 | 500 LV | -- | 54 | 43 | McCain +11 |
| InAdv/PollPosition | 09/10 - 09/10 | 506 LV | 4.0 | 56 | 38 | McCain +18 |
| Strategic Vision (R) | 09/07 - 09/09 | 800 LV | -- | 52 | 39 | McCain +13 |
| Rasmussen | 08/14 - 08/14 | 500 LV | -- | 53 | 44 | McCain +9 |
| Rasmussen | 07/17 - 07/17 | 500 LV | 4.5 | 53 | 42 | McCain +11 |
| InAdv/PollPosition | 07/02 - 07/02 | 502 LV | -- | 46 | 44 | McCain +2 |
| Strategic Vision (R) | 06/27 - 06/29 | 800 LV | -- | 51 | 43 | McCain +8 |
| Rasmussen | 06/26 - 06/26 | 800 LV | 4.0 | 53 | 43 | McCain +10 |
| InAdv/PollPosition | 06/18 - 06/18 | 408 LV | 5.0 | 44 | 43 | McCain +1 |
| Rasmussen | 06/04 - 06/04 | 500 LV | -- | 51 | 41 | McCain +10 |
| Insider Advantage | 05/20 - 05/20 | 652 LV | 3.6 | 45 | 35 | McCain +10 |
| Strategic Vision (R) | 05/09 - 05/11 | 800 LV | -- | 54 | 40 | McCain +14 |
| Rasmussen | 05/06 - 05/06 | 500 LV | -- | 53 | 39 | McCain +14 |
| Rasmussen | 03/20 - 03/20 | 500 LV | -- | 53 | 40 | McCain +13 |
| SurveyUSA | 02/26 - 02/28 | 592 RV | -- | 54 | 41 | McCain +13 |
- The Failure of Big Government Conservatism - Ralph Reiland, American Spectator
- Goodbye Reagan Democrats - Stan Greenberg, New York Times
- Was Last Week's Vote a Realignment? - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics
- The New Liberalism - George Packer, The New Yorker
- The McCain I Know - Mark Salter, The Daily Beast
- Three Men for Today's Challenges - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
- A Disturbing Trend For the GOP - J.C. Watts, Las Vegas Review-Journal
- How Obama Won - Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
- Obama Has Much to Prove - David Shribman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Election '08: Irony Abounds - George Will, Sacramento Bee
- The Week Americans Reclaimed Their Country - Frank Rich, NY Times
- The Unity Fantasy - Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard
- The GOP's Deep Hole - Norman Ornstein, Los Angeles Times
- The Right Needs to Get Centered - Rich Lowry, Washington Post
- Triumph of Temperament, Not Policy - Michael Barone, US News & WR
- A Mandate for Progressivism - David Sirota, Salon
- Rahm Emanuel: Expect a Pragmatic White House - Jason Riley, WSJ
- Obama: Radical Moderate - Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times
- America Should Be Proud - Bob Herbert, New York Times
- Now It's Our Turn to Hope - William Kristol, Weekly Standard
- Obama's Risky Emanuel Pick - Steve Kornacki, New York Observer
- What the Recession Means for Foreign Policy - Richard Haass, Wall St. Jrnl
- Gingrich 2012? - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
- Barack Obama, CEO in Chief - Nina Easton, Fortune
- Obama's Calm Demeanor Will Be Tested - Ann McFeatters, Boston Herald
- How Obama Should Handle the Press - George Packer, New Yorker
- 'Center-Right' America Lurches Further Left - Mark Steyn, OC Register
- Slow Learning Republicans - Jonathan Chait, New Republic
- The Republican Challenge Going Forward - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
- Why I'll Miss President Bush - Jim Towey, Wall Street Journal
- Obama Will Never Be a Forgotten President - Robert Dallek, The Telegraph
- A Better Fiscal Stimulus - Chicago Tribune
- A Real Realignment - Harold Meyerson, Washington Post
- Moderates Made Obama President - Doug Schoen, New York Daily News
- Chief Executive or Business-Basher? - John Gapper, Financial Times
- Swing Voters Don't Want Big Government - Pat Toomey, WSJ
- The Meaning of Obama's Win - Nancy Gibbs, Time
- Stepping into the Sunshine - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
- Closing the Door on Victimhood - Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe
- Make Haste Slowly, President Obama? - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
- Note to Obama: Now Is the Time to Be Bold - Errol Louis, NY Daily News
- Now We Know: The Left's View of US Is Wrong - Greg Sheridan, Australian
- 'Yes We Can.' But Can He? - Timothy Garton Ash, Globe and Mail
- How the President-Elect Did It - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
- Landslide That Doesn't Feel All Liberal - Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
- Unity? No, Thank You - David Harsanyi, Denver Post
- Glow of Obama's Win Good Enough For Now - John Heilemann, NY Mag
- Republicans: 1st Day of the Rest of Your Lives - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
- What Would Goldwater Do? - George Will, Washington Post
- A Masterclass in Democracy - Times of London
- The World Cheers, Russia Challenges - Washington Post
- Meet Obama's Real Opposition - Wall Street Journal
- Goodbye, Bradley Effect - Boston Globe
- GOP Must Choose Between Two Futures - David Frum, The Telegraph
- Dems Add Suburbs to Growing Coalition - MacGillis & Cohen, Wash Post
- Miraculous March to the White House - Steve Forbes, Forbes
- The Audacity of America - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
- It Is a New Day in America - Laurence Tribe, Forbes
- Obama Recognized the Desire for Change - Gerard Baker, Times of London
- Obama's Transcendence is Beyond Race - Ron Fournier, Associated Press
- Ten Reasons Why Obama Won - Carl Cannon, Reader's Digest
- America's History Gives Way to Its Future - Kevin Merida, Washington Post
- Tide Turned as Economic Crisis Peaked - Monica Langley, Wall St. Journal
- The Age of Obama: Will He Govern as He Ran? - Jon Meacham, Newsweek
- McCain's Concession - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
- World Welcomes Obama with Open Arms - Christiane Amanpour, CNN
- A Huge Victory for Chicago - Carol Marin, Chicago Sun-Times
- In the Democratic Senate, Could Moderates Rule? - Jay Carney, Time
- In Lincoln's Shadow - Michael Cohen, New York Times
- No Mandate for Obama, No Lopsided Congress - Robert Novak, Chicago ST
- Obama Awakens a New America - Marc Pitzke, Der Spiegel
- The First Night in the Age of Obama - George Packer, The New Yorker
- A Foreign-Policy Repair Manual - Fred Kaplan, Slate
- The End Of Racism? - John McWhorter, Forbes
- The Ultimate Color Line - Henry Louis Gates, The Root
- Is It Transformational? - Gary Langer, ABC News
- Democratic Party Revitalized - Dick Polman, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Yes, It Is Time to Hope Again - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
- A Moment in Time - Howard Kurtz, Washington Post
- Obama Win Preserves the Supreme Court - Glenn Greenwald, Salon
- Ten Theses on President-Elect Obama - Scott Johnson, Power Line
- A Vital Win for Democracy - Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Steady as He Goes - Michael Tomasky, The Guardian
- Forging a Conservative Agenda - Tony Blankley, Washington Times
- A Transformation on Race - Michael Moynihan, Reason
- First Item of Business - Mark McKinnon, The Daily Beast
- What Obama Means to This Nation - Anna Quindlen, Newsweek
- From King to Obama, the Nation Heals - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
- The Obama Revolution - John Harris and Jim VandeHei, Politico
- Near-Flawless Run - Nagourney, Rutenberg and Zeleny, New York Times
- Obama Won with Clear Message of Change - David Brody, The Brody File
- Decisive Win Gives Dems New Clout - Susan Page, USA Today
- Bipartisanship Could Help Victorious Democrats - Gerald Seib, WSJ
- Conservatism Faces Challenges Ahead - Philip Klein, American Spectator
- America the Liberal - John Judis, The New Republic
- Obama's Post-Racial Promise - Shelby Steele, Los Angeles Times
- Will a Black President Heal the Racial Divide? - T.D. Jakes, Time
- Hail to the Chief - Michael Gerson, Washington Post
- Which Barack Obama Will Govern? - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
- Transformational Presidency - Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation