While I primarily trust polls like Gallup and Rasmussen, there’s always reason to look at other polls, and asses current and potential trends. So, I think it’s worth noting that a CBS poll says that the race has tightened since the VP Debate, and Zogby’s Daily Tracking Poll, has Obama only up by 3.
Yes, national polls are not important at this point… state polls are. However, one trend I casually observed was that the trends of state polls seems to follow those of national polls, with some period of delay.
So, we’ll just have to see if the tide has already started turning in McCain’s favor. The bailout business is behind us, and the Obama campaign is clearly rattled by the emergence of Bill Ayers a topic of the campaign. Dick Morris is also predicting the race will tighten.