WaPo-ABC Tracking: Nine Divided by 56 is...

[babsbunny]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2008/11/wapo-abc_tracking_nine_divided.html?hpid=topnews

In a mere 56 hours, voters in Dixville Notch, NH will cast the first Election Day ballots of the 2008 contest, and in that time, John McCain will need to close a big gap among likely voters if he is to defeat Barack Obama.

In today's Washington Post-ABC News daily tracking poll, Obama holds a 53 to 44 percent lead over McCain, unchanged from yesterday, and little in the survey suggests that trimming the margin would be an easy feat.

For the first time, the slice of likely voters who report they will "definitely" vote for Obama has (by just a hair) now reached 50 percent, a milestone which George W. Bush never reached in Post-ABC tracking polls in 2004 or 2000, and the number of movable voters - those who said they could change their minds or who remain undecided - has slimmed to 7 percent.

[BlooInBloo]

1. About .16.

[FVZA_Colonel]

2. He'd need to gain a point every 6.2 hours.

[Phx_Dem]

3. Yeah. Not happening.