McCain - Obama poll within 2 points

This is not good news for Barack Obama. After continual favorable press by the nations major newspapers and constant adulation by the alpha networks ABC, NBC and CBS as well as CNN and MSNBC, Barack Obama should be ahead of John McCain by a comfortable margin.

Obama is ahead by only 2 points making the race a virtual tie because the slender lead is within the margin of error.

A Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll, was conducted before Tuesday's Obama-McCain debate. It was performed by live telephone operators in Zogby's in-house call center in Upstate New York, included a total of 1,220 likely voters nationwide, and carries a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points.

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