Final NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll

Here is an exciting poll. It's exciting because all the data were collected on Sunday, so the numbers are absolutely fresh. The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll tells the story of likely voters this way:

Obama 51
McCain 43

The story at MSNBC observes:

To put Obama’s eight-point edge into perspective, the final NBC/WSJ survey before the 2004 presidential election had President Bush with a slim one-point lead over John Kerry, 48 to 47 percent.

Bush went on to win that election, 51 to 48 percent.