Reply #2: Two weeks later Obama is closing in on McCain in his home state of Arizona [View All]

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http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/264699

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 10.29.2008

PHOENIX — A new statewide poll suggests Arizona's senior senator could have trouble carrying his home state Tuesday.

The survey of 1,016 registered voters by KAET-TV shows Republican presidential hopeful John McCain leading Democrat Barack Obama by just 2 percentage points. And the margin of error in the poll, conducted Thursday through Sunday, is 3 points.

McCain campaign aide Kurt Davis dismissed the results as irrelevant, saying the only people whose views count are the ones who will go to the polls. And Tucsonan Margaret Kenski, who has done polling in the past for Republicans, said surveys of all registered voters — versus just those considered likely to vote — tend to skew toward Democrats.