Zogby: Obama Lead Drops 5 Points, Reuters: John McCain Is Really Old
Just another entry in the confusing mess of pre-election polls:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama’s lead over Republican rival John McCain has dropped to 5 points, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Sunday.
Obama leads McCain by 49 percent to 44 percent among likely U.S. voters in the daily tracking poll, which has a margin of error of 2.9 points. Obama’s lead has dropped over the last three days after hitting a high of 12 points on Thursday.
“Things are trending back for McCain. His numbers are rising and Obama’s are dropping on a daily basis. There seems to be a direct correlation between this and McCain talking about the economy,” pollster John Zogby said.
What is perhaps more interesting than the results of yet another national political poll, though, is Reuters’ bizarre decision to put the ages of the candidates in the article:
Obama, 47, took the lead in most national polls in recent weeks as the financial crisis and plunging stock market seized center stage ahead of the November 4 election.
McCain, 72, appeared slow to respond to Obama’s financial message but in recent days has ramped up the economic themes of his own campaign. On Saturday the Arizona Republican warned voters of the dangers of what he termed a Democratic take-over in both the White House and Congress.
Not that McCain’s age difference over Obama is any big secret, but I can’t figure out why Reuters reporter Andrew Quinn decided to include it in the article. Nothing in the article relates to the age of the candidates.
I mean, we get it. McCain is old. Way older than Obama.
So what?
