Oct 27, 2016 ... Pretty much everyone has an incentive to push the narrative that the presidential  race is tightening. ... chance the polling range will narrow over the final week of  the campaign because of herding (pollsters sometimes get scared to publish  results that seem like outliers as the campaign draws to a close).
Nov 6, 2016 ... On this last weekend before Election Day, the end can't come soon enough, as  the tension that has characterized this race stays with us until the end. .... But the  campaign insists that they have got volunteers at the ready to try to get people to  the polls and then to work, because, without Pennsylvania, ...
Aug 28, 2016 ... Trump's gains have been more modest in our polls-plus forecast, which  discounted Clinton's early August polls because of a potential convention bounce  and which anticipated that the race would tighten. In polls-plus, which forecasts  that Clinton's margin over Trump will narrow to roughly 4 percentage ...
Aug 9, 2016 ... I say this not to gloat about Donald Trump's latest meltdown — that's what Twitter  is for — or because I think the race is anywhere close to over. It is entirely  possible, even likely, that the polls will tighten again between now and November . ... I've always found this reply to be a bit silly and overstated.
Oct 21, 2008 ... With the election just two weeks away, some polls show the gap closing between  Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama. That fits with the conventional wisdom  that presidential elections tend to tighten up in the days before an election. Is end -game narrowing in the polls a real phenomenon? Yes. In 10 of ...
The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have.