Next stop on the poll rollercoaster

I had meant to post this earlier, but due to being at the way-cool Killers concert at the Paramount tonight I had to put it off until now. So, it seems we have a new poll for the 8th CD, a follow-up to the RT Strategies/Constituent Dynamics poll from late August. That poll showed Democratic candidate Darcy Burner leading GOP incumbent Dave Reichert 49-46 with a ~3% MOE. The current incarnate shows a rough flip from the last with Reichert leading 48-45, yet still within the MOE. Its partisan sample was 39 Independent, 32 Republican, and 29 Democratic, which does not quite seem right, at least in that it is at-odds with the most-recent SurveyUSA partisan sample. The breakdown by region has the two candidates tied in the city of Bellevue, and Reichert with modest leads in rural King and Pierce counties.

It is worth noting that Constituent Dynamics also polled the Idaho 1st district race, where Democrat Larry Grant appears to be catching up to ultra-conservative GOP nominee Bill Sali. Sali leads by 49-43, though this is the first poll I've seen for this race that did not have an unusually-massive amount of undecided respondents. Personally, I hope mainstream Idaho Republicans will be willing to cross over for Grant if only to keep the inept nut their party nominated out of Congress. Their bench is so deep that they would almost assuredly be able to take the seat back in 2008, and spare the nation a Rep. Bill Sali.