The guys at Rasmussen Reports are rightly tooting their horn today:
The final Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll showed Barack Obama leading John McCain 52% to 46%.
As of 6:30 a.m. Eastern, the actual returns showed Obama leading McCain 52% to 46%.
Down the stretch, the race was remarkably stable. Rasmussen Reports showed Obama receiving either between 50% of the vote and 52% for the last 40 days of Election 2008. The ranged tightened a bit during the final two weeks–Obama received either 51% or 52% of the vote on 13 of the last 14 days.
For McCain, the numbers stayed between 44% and 47% of the vote for the final forty days of the campaign. He was at 46% or 47% of the vote every day for the final nine days of the tracking poll.
They did pretty good on the state polls as well.
