Let's be honest here and not just cherrypick the one that rallies the troops on your side. Other generic polls show a much tighter race-- Pew has Dems up by only 4%, Washington Post has them up by 6%, Gallup by 7%. The closest to CNN is Newsweek at 16%.

Frankly I think all this means diddly squat, as no one is voting on a generic ballot tomorrow.

Damn! Why are you guys afraid of good news? When it gets down to the nitty gritty we need to get pumped up and pumped out to GOTV! Go to (callforchange.org) and give us a little phone calling love!

Ed Beckmann Disabled Viet Vet

What's the difference in the internals of the polls?

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GOTV, GOTV, GOTV!!!

That's true, but there have been some interesting studies done showing how to extrapolate from one to the other.

www.pollster.com

Also, no exit polls before 5 pm tomorrow, so anyone who says differently is wrong.

Pollster.com: I want to ask more generally about how things will be different this year. First, let's talk about the issue of when and how you will release data to members of the National Election Pool (NEP) consortium and other subscribers. In the past, and please correct me if I'm wrong, hundreds of producers, editors and reporters had access to either the mid-day estimates or early versions of the crosstabulations that you would do, and the top-line estimate numbers would inevitably leak. How is that process going to be different this year?

Joe Lenski, exit pollster: The news organizations are really taking this challenge seriously on how to control the information for a couple of reasons. First, each of these news organizations have made a commitment to Congress over the years that they would not release data that would characterize the winner or leader in a race before the polls have closed. So in essence, by this data leaking, it was undermining that promise that they had made to Congress.

The other thing is that we know these are partial survey results. No polling organization leaks their partial survey results. If it's a four-day survey they don't leak results after two days. Similarly if it's a twelve-hour exit poll survey in the field you're not going to release results after just three hours of interviews. So the data will not be distributed to the news organizations until 5:00 p.m. in 2006, and that's a change from all the previous elections. The goal is that this will be more complete data and also we will have more time to review the data and deal with any issues in the data that look questionable that we need to investigate. It will still give news organizations time for their people to look at the data before the polls start closing.