Today's polls brings more confusion than ever, because they now show the widest range between any two polls, and show the race moving in opposite directions.
Investor's Business Daily has a tracking poll Sunday in which Obama took a 5.7% point lead, up 4 points from Saturday. Now this is a tracking poll over 6 days and has 913 people in it's sample. One week ago, Obama had a 0.7% lead in the poll.
Meanwhile Gallup Tracking has moved Romney back to a 7% lead after slipping a point on Saturday. Gallup uses a 7 day tracking model and has a sample of 2700 people.
So who is closer to the truth? We really won't know until hte election, but it does show the volatility of some o fhte pools.
Meanwhile NBC/Wall Street Journal today released a poll showing the race tied. This sampling was entirely after the 2nd debate and shows movement of 3 points towards Romney from the end of September. Unfortunately they did not release a poll after the first debate, so we have no idea of whether there was any movement after hte first debate. We only know the net movement.
If you are a partisan, you have a poll to quote today and declare the race over. However in the end, both polls cannot be right. But which one IS right?
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