ABC News/Washington Post National Poll: Clinton+4

[Antonio the Sixth]

Meh, this isn't catastrophic, but it's still annoying to see Drudge be right about something.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Of course 538 would adjust this down to Clinton +3 even though almost every other ABC poll in the past has been adjusted up. What a joke.

Was just about to post this. Interesting decision.

It's not a "decision". These adjustments are made based on a statistical model (I'd guess something like an OLS regression, though it might be something more complicated) that takes into account factors such as trend and house effect. I don't know how they got to this adjustment (I'm surprised by it myself), but this is not a judgment call by Silver or anyone.

[Antonio the Sixth]

So we have two polls conducted in the same time span that show Clinton +4 and +11. Averaging them gets us to +7.5, which is about where she stood right before the debate. So this would suggest that the race has remained stable.