The Election Watch Poll
Each time you purchase an Election Watch you are registering your opinion in a most sacred of American ways – with your hard earned cash. Just how closely do sales of watches parallel those other high fallutin campaign polls?
Steady as she goes, Obama holds the line for the with another week of strong sales (78%). .How does that compare to that other reality? In the real world of RickWarren, shoes and luxury homes on the campaign trail, it remains much more of a dead heat. The polls are relatively unchanged from last week but the gap between the two candidates is much smaller when you’re not counting by watches sold.
The Gallup showing Obama holding at 45% to McCain’s 44%. Reuters (Aug 20th) is the only major poll to give the edge to John McCain. The trend line at USA Today gives a slight edge to Obama with both candidates holding steady. This week we turned to Real Politics for our overview of poll-mania.
Keep buying watches and keep the data pipeline flowing. Gotta a guess as to what happens next week? Write us at robin@wavingwatches.com. We'll give you a shout out and a free watch, too.
Students of history and e-commerce will enjoy contrasting this year’s Web 2.0 crazed election season with 2004’s watch sales. Want to see the month-by-month Electionwatch polls from 2004? Click here to relive the glory days of the Bush-Kerry race http://www.electionwatches.com/poll2004.html
Also, see our blog for interesting analysis of red versus blue buying habits.
