A blog written by Manchester College students studying the 2008 presidential campaign.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Electoral Votes for today

I was looking at the electoral vote updates for today and it's funny, I remembering looking a few weeks ago and it was mostly reds. Now it is pretty much even. Obama has 349, McCain 174 and there are 15 ties. For the Senate, the Democrats have 58 and the GOP has 42. And for the House the Democrats have 241 and the GOP has 193 with 1 tie. This is really quit interesting. On the map, there are four barely democratic states, and only one barely republican state. There are 15 strong Democratic states, and 16 strong Republican states. 7 weak Democratic states, and 5 weak republican states. North Carolina is the only exactly tied state present.

In regards to national tracking polls, Obama leads in 8 of them.
Battleground- +7
CNN- +8
Diageo- +6
Gallup- +8
NYT/CBS- +3
Rasmussen- +8
Research 2000- +8
WSJ/NBC- +6
WaPo/ABC- +6
The average present is a 6.7 point lead.

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