Fri Sep 5, 12:02 PM Pacific • posted by Jed Lewison
CBS Poll Shows Dead Heat
CBS has it at 42-42 in a poll conducted Monday through Wednesday. This is an outlier poll, but both Rasmussen (Obama +2, 48-46) and Gallup (Obama +4, 48-44) also have the race tightening.
I'm not at all alarmed by these polling numbers, at least not as far as my confidence that we will win this campaign. (It is a bit disturbing that people get sucked in by the Palin-McCain campaign, but that's a different story.)
In fact, as I mentioned earlier, the tightening polls might be good for press coverage: we all know how much the the media enjoys a close, exciting race, and if it's already close, they may be less likely to target Barack Obama or to take it easy on McCain.
It also underscores the importance of what they are doing to vet Sarah Palin. The fact remains that the first time most of us had ever seen her in action was one week ago, and even though I'm sure we will win the election, the polls are close and America deserves to know more about her.
Including, for example, the fact that her fabled Ebay jet sale...didn't actually happen.