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As the nation heads toward a historic Election Day, Barack Obama has edged ahead of John McCain among Florida voters, but by a margin that still leaves the race a tossup, according to a new poll.
The poll, done for The Tampa Tribune by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, shows Obama with 47 percent to McCain’s 45 percent, 7 percent undecided and 1 percent for other candidates.
With the poll’s 4-point error margin, the result amounts to a tie or close to a tie, said pollster Brad Coker.
The result is an improvement for Obama from two weeks ago, when the same poll showed McCain ahead by a single percentage point, but Coker noted that both outcomes, and the change, are within the error margin.
“It’s a bit of a gain—I’d rather be two points ahead than two points behind,” Coker said. “But it’s nothing to bet the house on, if you still have one.”
Coker said either candidate can win Florida – “It’s a turnout game.”
But he said McCain’s failure to nail down a state that sealed the 2000 and 2004 races for George W. Bush indicates a nationwide problem.
Another poll published today, by Datamar Inc., found the race a 47-47 percent tie, with 4 percent undecided and 2 percent for other candidates.
Full story in tomorrow’s Tampa Tribune.
I went to an OBAMA rally 2day sponsored by the UNITED PAINTER’S UNION with guest host Chris Rock.
I stood in line at the College Hill Library with my friend because she wanted to vote.
I voted by Absentee Ballot, checked online at www.hillsborough.org and my ballot had been received!
We waited 4 hours in line! It was a great experience. I met so many people while waiting in line. It was all worth it! My friend got a round of APPLAUS when she came out!
Voting 2day will go down as a HISTORICAL EVENT and I was a part of it.
Early voting ended at 7pm 2day but if anyone is line, they will be able to cast their vote.
Thank you, Charlie Crist, for extending the hours at the precincts.
I have no doubt that when good Christians of ALL COLORS go to
NationalBlackProLifeUnion.com and understand in their own words how ABORTION IS THE NUMBER ONE KILLER OF AFRICAN AMERICANS!!!, those who are supporting OBAMA will change their mind.
They cannot in good conscience support a man who would deny economic and social justice to black babies while still in the womb.
I know may great Christians, especially black christians who will not be able to balance their love of the gospel with Obama’s willingness to support the murder of the unborn.
They just will not do it.
They will bite the bullet and wait for a better man of color to come on the scene, and there are MANY out there.
Yeah! Lets win Florida! Obama/Biden2008!
Nah, The full details in WEDNESDAYS’ tribune, NOT tomorrows.
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Posted by Tom Logue, Coral Gables on 11/02 at 08:08 AM
John McCain voted three times in favor of President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security and invest social secruitiy in the stock market. MCain was still touting this plan as late as September of 2008.
John McCain wants to treat social security like he wants to treat health care. McCain wrote an article in Contingencies magazine in which he called for de-reregulation to open health care to “more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking.”
More deregulation as we have done over the last decade in banking? G-d help us.