T he AmericaOnLine (AOL.com) has been polling its subscribers. For the week of Oct. 10-17, 2008, Sen. John McCain garnered 54%  or 116,917 Popular Votes of (and from) some 215,969 AOL subscribers who participated in the polls. Sen. Barack H. Obama garnered 44% or 94,038 Popular Votes. Today, Oct. 30, 2008, Senator McCains holds a commanding 24% lead over Mr. Obama in the AOL poll. Senator McCain has 104,472 votes (61%) while Senator Obama generated 63,559 votes (37%) with 2% going to third-party candidates and undecided voters.

Here is the hyperlink to the AOL poll:

Hey! Check out this cool poll on the 2008 Elections:

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/straw-poll/

In order to vote, the AOL subscriber has to write down his/her screen name in an appropriate box, type in the password and identify in which state the participant is residing. Based on the geographical location of the participants, the AOL.com tracks down also the probable Electoral Votes. According to the AOL poll, Mr. McCain would garner 378 Electoral Votes while Mr. Obama would get 160 Electoral Votes.

Here is the complete tabulation:

Candidate                Percentage        Popular Vote                    Electoral Vote

McCain                         54%                 116,917                                   378

Obama                         44%                   94,038                                   160

Barr                                 1%                     1,678                                      0

Nader                              1%                     1,281                                      0

Undecided                      0%                       834                                       0

Others                              0%                       788                                       0

McKinney                         0%                       433                                       0

To read the latest AOL report, please click on this hyperlink, where the survey is also found:

http://news.aol.com/elections/article/is-it-too-late-for-a-mccain-comeback/215417?icid=100214839x1211153804x1200717013

It can be argued that the AOL poll, while admittedly is not scientific, has more participants than the surveys being done by the Gallup Poll, CNN, Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and other national newspapers. The other polls rely mainly on a couple of thousands of individuals, maximum. Incidentally, today the Gallup Poll shows Senator McCain trailing Mr. Obama by only two percentage points, which is in the margin of error. # # #