http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2008/10/survey-usa-burner-leading-reichert-50.htmlThursday, King 5 television released a poll, conduced by Survey USA, on the race for Washington's 8th congressional district. The poll shows Burner leading Reichert by 50 to 46 percent, with 4 percent of respondents undecided
Burner's lead is just equal to the poll's 4% margin of error, meaning that this result is at the very outer edge of still being a so-called "statistical tie." In other words, it's still very close.
What is interesting about this poll, however, is the cross-tabular results (a.k.a. "crosstabs" to most political junkies these days), which break down the overall poll sample into many different sub-groups.