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The daily UNH/WMUR tracking poll shows the races in New Hampshire narrowing, but still outside the reach of Republicans.

In the presidential contest John McCain has narrowed Barack Obama's lead to 11 points. McCain made up ground all week among Republicans. The poll finds that 88 percent of Republicans now support McCain, up from 74 percent earlier this week. That said, Obama has 53 percent of independents supporting his campaign.

The 3rd district congressional race between Democrat John Adler and Republican Christopher Myers is a statistical dead heat, according to a Zogby International poll conducted by The Press of Atlantic City and The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.  More than 16% of the voters poll remain undecided, with each candidate at 39%.   Adler, a State Senator from Camden County, and Myers, the Mayor of Medford, are seeking the seat of Republican Jim Saxton, who is retiring after 24 years in the House.  Republicans have held this seat since 1884.

Third district voters are also split on races for President and U.S. Senate: Barack Obama, 45%, John McCain, 44%; and Dick Zimmer, 45%, Frank Lautenberg 44%.

An Associated Press poll has good news for Barack Obama and Jeanne Shaheen (D-Madbury). The poll shows Obama with an 18 point lead over John McCain, while Shaheen has a six-point lead over U.S. Sen. John Sununu (R-Waterville Valley).

Obama leads McCain 55 percent to 37 percent and Shaheen is beating Sununu 47 percent to 41 percent.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is leading Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by four points among likely voters in Ohio in the race for president, a poll by SurveyUSA shows.

The poll also showed state Treasurer Richard Cordray (D-Pleasant Twp.) leading in the race for Attorney General, and voters leaning toward voting down Issues 5 and 6.

Obama recieved 49 percent support among likely voters in the poll, compared to 45 percent for McCain. Respondents choosing "other" came in at 4 percent, with 3 percent undecided.

SurveyUSA identified 648 likely voters in the poll, with a margin of error of +/- 3.9 percentage points.

Republican Andy Harris leads Democrat Frank Kratovil by 4 points, but within the margin or error, according to a new poll.
  
Harris, a state Senator from Cockeysville, is currently competing against Kratovil, the Queen Anne's County state attorney, for the open 1st Congressional District seat.
 
The poll was paid for by Daily Kos -- a liberal-leaning blog -- and conducted by Research 2000. It asked, "If the election for Congress were held today would you vote for Frank Kratovil the Democrat or Andy Harris the Republican?"
 
Forty-four percent chose Harris, 40 percent said Kratovil and 16 percent were undecided.

Buried in the crosstabs of Thursday night's Suffolk University/7News poll are some interesting favorability numbers for state's top politicians, several of which are often rumored to be interested in seeking higher office than the one they currently inhabit.

The crosstabs, made available to PolitickerMA.com, show that the majority of Massachusetts voters have a favorable opinion of Gov. Deval Patrick and that Attorney General Martha Coakley is among the most well-known and more favorably viewed of other Massachusetts politicians.

Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they have a favorable view of Patrick, a Milton Democrat, while 23 percent said they view the governor unfavorably. Just four percent had never heard of him and 16 percent had no opinion.

With just 11 days until the election, a recent Suffolk University/7News poll shows U.S. Sen. John Kerry with a substantial lead over Republican challenger Jeff Beatty.

Kerry, a Boston Democrat, leads Beatty 56 percent to 19 percent in the poll, which was conducted Monday through Wednesday this week.