Electoral College projections based on state polls also show a dead heat.

Early polling showed the race a dead heat.

And now with only six weeks remaining, Republicans face polls showing a dead heat in Florida.

Yet polls before the bugs were found showed the race virtually a dead heat.

Going into the last few days of the campaign, virtually every survey showed either a dead heat or a slight Panic lead.

The CNN exit polls showed a dead heat between the two.

Most polls show a dead heat, so Senator Faircloth is running hard.

But exit polls for this race showed a virtual dead heat.

Each poll shows a statistical dead heat because the gap falls within the margin of sampling error.

But by the end of a week in which even Osama bin Laden made a video appearance, all the evidence still showed a dead heat.