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Our friends at Electoral-vote.com
have upgraded their servers and tweaked their methodology a bit,
providing for the historical 2:1 break for challengers by undecided
voters. This latest compiles 41 different polls and I have plugged the
results into my map with the size of the state weighted for number of
electoral votes available. There are no absolute ties with all this
data crunched, but many states are still within a whisker.
Note that in the 7 out of 16 "swing states" where Bush is up are all within
the margin of error -- statistical ties; and Kerry's leads in Michigan,
Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington are all outside
the margin of error, solidly in Kerry's corner.
Mind you that winning the "big three" swingers: Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Florida, looks pretty optimistic for the Kerry camp. A sweep would be
nice but only two out of three will do it. Pennsylvania looks solid
blue, however Ohio still is shaky but trending in the right way.
Florida is still Flori-DUH in my opinion until I'm proven wrong.
Stories of voter fraud still haunts the Sunshine State and are becoming
disturbingly commonplace here in the Buckeye State. (See previous post
about CrackHead
Chad for example.
ADENDUM: Mystery
Pollster has an excellent analysis of what the hell is up with Ohio
and why the various polls are remarkedly consistent (despite their
being "reported" as being all over the place).