This afternoon I noticed that Real Clear Politics was showing the national polling averages as a 1.4% lead for Obama. Other Kossacks have noted that RCP occasionally plays games with the polling averages. I checked the dates of the polls included in the average and found that they included one poll with dates of 9/26 to 9/30 but not another poll with identical dates ( the NPR poll that showed a 7% lead for Obama). Not to buy in to "unskewing" but the average with the NPR poll (the only other poll with a 9/30 end date) with NPR's poll the average would be 2.3%.