Graphical representations of two-way-contest opinion polling data from the 2008 United States presidential election
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This article provides line graphs and bar charts of scientific, nationwide public opinion polls that have been conducted relating to the 2008 United States presidential election. All graph data is taken from Nationwide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008 and Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008. This page was last updated on November 8, 2008.
Obama v. McCain
[edit]This shows the results of all polls from December 8, 2006, through November 4, 2008. The horizontal lines represent actual voting results on November 4.
Obama v. McCain by individual pollster
[edit]With the election near at hand, a closer look was needed to better see the ebb and flow from day to day. Since each pollster may have had a different set of parameters, it was useful to look at line graphs of a number of them on one page to better discern trends. Horizontal dashed lines represent actual final voting.
Obama v. McCain v. Barr v. Nader
[edit]Seven-way race
[edit]Line graph, all candidates
[edit]Democrats v. Republicans
[edit]External links
[edit]Key Electoral States Polls and Actual Results
[edit]- Key States, Polls vs Actual Results Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine
Candidates v. all opponents
[edit]- Obama composite Archived 2012-02-29 at the Wayback Machine
- McCain composite[permanent dead link]
- Hillary composite Archived 2012-02-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Gore composite Archived 2012-02-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Giuliani composite
Individual two-way races
[edit]- Obama v Giuliani
- Obama v Huckabee Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Obama v Romney Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Obama v Thompson Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Hillary v McCain Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Hillary v Condoleezza Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Hillary v Giuliani Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Hillary v Huckabee Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Hillary v Jeb Bush Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Hillary v Romney Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Hillary v Thompson Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Edwards v Huckabee Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Edwards v Giuliani
- Edwards v Romney Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Edwards v Thompson Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Gore v Giuliani[permanent dead link]
- Gore v McCain Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
Scatter chart, all candidates
[edit]- Scatter chart Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine
One-on-one, all candidates
[edit]- One-on-one Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine