CBS/NYT Poll: Obama Maintains Double-Digit Lead

[Mark E. Smith]

Source: CBS News

With just twelve days left until Election Day,
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama
holds a 13 point lead over Republican rival John
McCain, a new CBS/New York Times poll shows.

Obama now leads McCain 52 percent to 39 percent
among likely voters nationwide ...

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/23/opinion/polls/main4541781.shtml?tag=topStory;topStoryHeadline

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Damn! This race is really tightening.

Yeah, right, AP.

[jacobfloyd]

3. Don't count your chickens before they die

[melody]

5. Whoa, do I sense hostility? lol n/t

[instantkarma]

7. People just don't seem to realize

McCain's got Obama just where he wants him -- up 13 points with 12 days to go. Why can't Obama close the deal?

I also wonder what Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are going to do when that Beatles bubble finally bursts...

[dennis4868]

2. I wonder why this poll and some others...

have different results than Gallup, Hotline, etc...

[melody]

6. Which polls? All the non-debunked polls show similar results n/t

[dennis4868]

8. well the Gallup poll...

for LV is down to 6 points (it was 10 points 2 days ago)....I truly feel that Obama is ahead by 5-8 points nationally....somewhere in that range, which will be a blowout on election day :-)

GOBAMA!

[melody]

10. It's the magic booglie known as "likely voter"

It can mean any damn thing.

I'm pretty confident that Obama has an excellent chance of victory. It they can steal it, though, they will:
http://stealbackyourvote.org

That can't be posted too often.

[stillcool]

4. Do we need to send this to the TV people?

[DeepModem Mom]

9. K&R

[paulkienitz]

12. been a looooooong time since I've seen different pollsters have such differing results (nt)

[wellst0nev0ter]

11. Is This The First Poll Where Obama Won The Plurality of White Voters?

46-45. If it's so, then wow. . .

[doc03]

13. Now wait a f-----g minute I just heard Anderson

Cooper tell Larry King McCain is getting momentum. Then I check realpolitics.com and Obama's lead is actually slightly larger today 7.5, yesterday it was 7.2. Where are they getting this crap? :shrug:

[yellowcanine]

14. I think it is now safe to say that the real national lead for Obama is around 10 points.

Not the 6-7 points of a few days ago. This may be partially a result of the "Palin wardrobe malfunction"