http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/gube/36618 Its all over....Brake out the champagne....Obama wins...The fat lady is singing....... NEW YORK &mdash; With just a day left until Election Day, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama holds a statistically significant advantage over Republican Sen. John McCain in the race for the White House, according to the final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before the election. Obama leads McCain by eight points nationally among likely voters, 51 to 43 percent, which is down three points from his 53-to-42 lead in the poll nearly two weeks ago. To put Obama&rsquo;s eight-point edge into perspective, the final NBC/WSJ survey before the 2004 presidential election had President Bush with a slim one-point lead over John Kerry, 48 to 47 percent. Bush went on to win that election, 51 to 48 percent. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id... Its all over....Brake out the champagne....Obama wins...The fat lady is singing....... NEW YORK &mdash; With just a day left until Election Day, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama holds a statistically significant advantage over Republican Sen. John McCain in the race for the White House, according to the final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before the election. Obama leads McCain by eight points nationally among likely voters, 51 to 43 percent, which is down three points from his 53-to-42 lead in the poll nearly two weeks ago. To put Obama&rsquo;s eight-point edge into perspective, the final NBC/WSJ survey before the 2004 presidential election had President Bush with a slim one-point lead over John Kerry, 48 to 47 percent. Bush went on to win that election, 51 to 48 percent. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id... en-us Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:53:53 PST <p><span style="color: #0000ff">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff">Something was missing from the first of John McCain's seven campaign stops today: the crowd.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff">Kicking off the last day of the election in Tampa, Florida, John McCain was welcomed by a roughly 1,000 voters. </span><a href="http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2008/11/tampa-tampa-ral.html"><span style="color: #0000ff">Compare that to</span></a><span style="color: #0000ff"> the 15,000 people that President Bush drew to a rally in Tampa on the eve of the 2004 election. &quot;What's up with that?&quot; </span><a href="http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2008/11/tampa-tampa-ral.html"><span style="color: #0000ff">wrote</span></a><span style="color: #0000ff"> Adam Smith at the <em>St. Petersburg Times</em>. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff">Even Fox News had a bit of difficulty spinning the whole thing. Carl Cameron, who is following the Senator at every stop on Monday, said the crowd size was likely &quot;a little bit disturbing&quot; for the McCain campaign. He added that organizers had set up the venue predicting ten times the number of attendees.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/gube/36618/#c_336576 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/gube/36618/#c_336576 <p><span style="color: #0000ff">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff">Something was missing from the first of John McCain's seven campaign stops today: the crowd.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff">Kicking off the last day of the election in Tampa, Florida, John McCain was welcomed by a roughly 1,000 voters. </span><a href="http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2008/11/tampa-tampa-ral.html"><span style="color: #0000ff">Compare that to</span></a><span style="color: #0000ff"> the 15,000 people that President Bush drew to a rally in Tampa on the eve of the 2004 election. &quot;What's up with that?&quot; </span><a href="http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2008/11/tampa-tampa-ral.html"><span style="color: #0000ff">wrote</span></a><span style="color: #0000ff"> Adam Smith at the <em>St. Petersburg Times</em>. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff">Even Fox News had a bit of difficulty spinning the whole thing. Carl Cameron, who is following the Senator at every stop on Monday, said the crowd size was likely &quot;a little bit disturbing&quot; for the McCain campaign. He added that organizers had set up the venue predicting ten times the number of attendees.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>