Summertime dead heat

Current Rasmussen polling shows the presidential race all tied up.

From the link:

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Analysis of Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

General Election Match-Up John McCain vs. Barack Obama
	Match-up without Leaners		Match-up with Leaners
	McCain	Obama	McCain	Obama
07/13/2008	43%	43%	46%	46%
07/12/2008	43%	43%	46%	47%
07/11/2008	42%	43%	45%	47%
07/10/2008	41%	45%	45%	48%
07/09/2008	41%	45%	44%	48%
07/08/2008	40%	46%	43%	49%
07/07/2008	41%	46%	44%	49%
07/06/2008	No Polling	No Polling	No Polling	No Polling
07/05/2008	No Polling	No Polling	No Polling	No Polling
07/04/2008	No Polling	No Polling	No Polling	No Polling
07/03/2008	40%	47%	44%	49%
07/02/2008	40%	46%	44%	49%
07/01/2008	40%	46%	44%	49%
06/30/2008	40%	46%	44%	49%
06/29/2008	40%	47%	43%	49%
06/28/2008	40%	47%	44%	49%
06/27/2008	40%	47%	45%	49%
06/26/2008	41%	46%	45%	49%
06/25/2008	40%	46%	45%	49%
06/24/2008	40%	46%	44%	49%
06/23/2008	40%	47%	43%	49%
06/22/2008	40%	47%	42%	49%
06/21/2008	40%	46%	43%	48%
06/20/2008	41%	45%	44%	48%
06/19/2008	42%	45%	45%	48%
06/18/2008	41%	45%	45%	48%
06/17/2008	40%	45%	44%	48%
06/16/2008	40%	45%	44%	48%
06/15/2008	39%	46%	43%	49%
06/14/2008	40%	47%	43%	49%
06/13/2008	40%	47%	44%	49%
06/12/2008	41%	47%	44%	50%
06/11/2008	41%	46%	44%	49%
06/10/2008	40%	48%	43%	50%
06/09/2008	40%	48%	44%	50%
06/08/2008	40%	48%	43%	50%
06/07/2008	42%	46%	45%	48%
06/06/2008	40%	45%	43%	48%
06/05/2008	41%	43%	45%	47%
06/04/2008	41%	43%	45%	47%

The final nail in Team Clinton’s coffin

Rasmussen is no longer polling the Democratic nomination race.

From the link:

At the moment, Senator Clinton’s team is busily trying to convince Superdelegates and pundits that she is more electable than Barack Obama. For reasons discussed in a separate article, it doesn’t matter. Even if every single Superdelegate was convinced that the former First Lady is somewhat more electable than Obama, that is not enough of a reason to deny him the nomination.

With this in mind, Rasmussen Reports will soon end our daily tracking of the Democratic race and focus exclusively on the general election competition between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama. Barring something totally unforeseen, that is the choice American voters will have before them in November. While we have not firmly decided upon a final day for tracking the Democratic race, it is coming soon.

Obama gaining in Penn

It looks like the predicted, and expected, Clinton blowout in Pennsylvania might not come to pass.

It’s fairly widely accepted she needs to win the state by around 20 points to remain the least bit (and that right there is a real stretch) viable in the race.

From the (second) Daily Dish link:

Rasmussen has Clinton by five in Pennsylvania: last week the spread was 10. SurveyUSA has her by 12: last week it was 19. A good trend for Obama. We’ll see if it keeps up.