McCain’s Pollster Is Optimistic

Don’t count John McCain out just yet. His personal pollster recently told the campaign that “impressive strides over the last week of tracking” mean the race could “easily be too close to call by next Tuesday.” That sounds like obligatory fluff to some politicos, but NBC’s Chuck Todd sees it differently.

HT: Political Wire

MSNBC / Chuck Todd:

The question all of us in the analyst community are trying to figure out is, will these undecided Republican-leaning voters show up and vote McCain? Or will they stay home?

If they show up and vote, then Obama’s margins will shrink dramatically because McCain — as I’ve argued before — will garner some 70+ percent of the undecided vote.

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