Oct. 26: State Poll Averages Usually Call Election Right

By NATE SILVER


The FiveThirtyEight forecast model has found the past several days of battleground state polling to be reasonably strong for Barack Obama, with his chances of winning the Electoral College increasing as a result. The intuition behind this ought to be very simple: Mr. Obama is maintaining leads in the polls in Ohio and other states that are sufficient for him to win 270 electoral votes.

Friday featured a large volume of swing state polling, including three polls of Ohio, each of which showed Mr. Obama ahead by margins ranging from two to four percentage points.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/oct-26-state-poll-averages-usually-call-election-right/

Des Moine Register endorses SM (Obama still has solid lead in Iowa) after

off record interview with Obama>blasting him for being off record>Team Obama allowing them to print entire interview.

They are very smart.  Last time they endorsed a Republican was 1972--the wise choice of Richard Nixon which was a great outcome for both Nixon and the country.



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both papers endorsed O in '08.

Cincinnati Enquirer/Ohio News Organization Poll that shows President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney each with 49 percent support from likely voters.

That's a slip for the president, who took 51 percent of likely voters in the newspaper group's September poll.

http://www.13wmaz.com/news/topstories/article/201906/175/Ohio-Poll-Romney-Obama-Tied-Among-Likely-Voters