A CNN poll today says that Obama and McCain are in a "dead heat." What do the electoral polls say?

A CNN poll today says that Obama and McCain are in a "dead heat. " What do the electoral polls say? As we have all seen over the past several elections, polls can reflect a dead heat, but the electoral map can be anything but.

If the election were held today, who would win, based on polling that reflects electoral votes? Asked by HankMoody 41 months ago Similar questions: CNN poll today Obama McCain dead heat electoral polls Politics & Law > Politics.

Similar questions: CNN poll today Obama McCain dead heat electoral polls.

RealClearPolitics estimates Obama 273 McCain 265 counting all States. But shows 11 states as toss ups. Obama 228, McCain 174, Toss Ups 136 You can see state polling data by using their interactive map.

realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_... .

Obama's up, but barely RealClearPolitics counts 228 "safe" votes for Obama, and 273 (just above the necessary 270) best guess on the toss-up states. The left-leaning electoral-vote.com counts 264 votes with 22 votes too close to call (Colorado and Virginia). The right-leaning electionprojection.com also counts 273 electoral votes for Obama, to 265 for McCain.

The only difference between the two is that electionprojection allocates Colorado to Obama and Virginia to McCain, arriving at the same map as RealClearPolitics. The left-leaning FiveThirtyEight.com (using a very different statistical method from the others) comes up with 284.7 for Obama. The upshot is that Obama should win if things remain constant, but he's counting on a number of toss-up states that he'll need to solidify during the next few months.

And it wouldn't be hard for a miss-step to cost him one of those. Sources: http://realclearpolitics.com/ .

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