A Thought On Gallup
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew
Seems everyone is describing the latest Gallup daily tracking numbers with some variation on, “Obama has a ten point lead, which is his biggest ever.” However, in my opinion, Obama breaking from plurality support to majority support is a more important factoid than the size of his lead. The fact that undecideds have all but dried up and more than one out of every two Democrats is backing Obama strikes me as a relatively new dimension to the race. Previously, there was always a fair case to be made that plenty of Democrats still weren’t certain of what they wanted. If Obama can maintain a consistent majority, that argument goes out the window.
Obviously, this isn’t all that important. I would just emphasize the results a bit differently than most media/bloggers are.
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