McCain's campaign from a polling angle

The 2008 presidential election campaign is a margin of errors race, said Bill Mclnturff, lead campaign pollster for the McCain-Palin 2008 campaign today in a conference call discussing the presidential campaign's recent polling as state races are closing in and what impact the approaching debates will have on the polls.

“My entire suspicion of the debates is a black hole, something is going to happen and we'll know more in two and half weeks,” Mclnturff said. According to Mclnturff the election is going to be decided in 12 swing states he referred to as the most competitive states: Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Nevada followed by New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. “It is an margin of errors race with a very modest change in the key states,” Mclnturff said.

According to Mclnturff, the Latino swing voters are very important due to Obama himself being black, leaving the McCain-Palin campaign dependent on the “soft, persuadable white voters” as Mclturff described them. Mclnturff admitted that the current economic crisis hanging over America is a subject showing changes in the polls and will continue to do so. “I don’t think there’s any fixed or locked point in the American election result,” Mclnturff said.