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Barack Obama is continuing to defeat the odds as he met the 50 percent threshold for the first time in the Gallup daily tracking poll on Tuesday - a symbolic hurdle that until now had eluded the Democratic nominee. The Gallup daily tracking poll has found that since the conclusion of the Democratic convention, Obama has risen 5 percentage points in the polls and now leads John McCain 50 percent to 42 percent, according to Politico.com. That represents a positive turn for Obama, after a couple of days which he appeared to have peaked at the 49 percent mark while McCain was showing slight improvements. While an improvement from 49 percent to 50 percent is statistically insignificant, the 50 percent mark holds significance for a party seeking to win its first majority since 1976, when Jimmy Carter won with 50.1 percent. Obama now has his firmest political footing of the campaign, according to polls. Daily tracking polls by Gallup and Rasmussen Reports demonstrate that Obama has taken his greatest lead since the beginning of the general election in June when he clinched the Democratic nomination. [source]

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