Posted on 09/24/2008 11:16:42 PM PDT by Luke21
State by state, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill). is showing signs of breaking open a presidential race that looked deadlocked through much of September.
A new wave of polls released Wednesday showed decisive leads for Obama in the critical states of Colorado, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
That follows noticeable progress in polls in Virginia, which had looked safe for Sen. John McCain, and Florida, which had looked promising for McCain.
This is the first time that one of the candidates has dominated state polls in the most closely contested battlegrounds.
Republican strategist Karl Rove had predicted this tectonic shift, writing at Rove.com earlier this week: "[I]f the movement toward Obama in national polls continue to percolate down to the states, we could see an Obama lead later this week."
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I’m looking at the polls too. I see NH for McCain. McCain ahead in FL, VA and tied in PA.
What polls is this guy talking about?
Do you remember experience ever being mentioned when Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton ran for president?
These polls seem full of media obfuscation. They obviously love socialism and love the bailout.
I think it’s legit
And he’ll get about as much publicity as another Larry, Larry Nichols did back in the nineties.
Was nothing but leaping and cartwheeling by the press when Ferraro was named.
I would take that in a second. Hope you are right. I live in Arizona and as stupid as the voters here have become, McCain is a lock.
This is Politico! Not friendly toward conservatives.
Fox had a poll today that had Obama ahead by nine points on who is more trusted to handle the economy. That’s the crux of it, folks.
For some reason, the electorate has decided Obama, a spendthrift steal your money Democrat, is more equipped to handle this crisis - when his type got us into it in the first place. I gues we have to thank the MSM disinformation campaign for that.
I think Colorado is gone... McCain is down 5 points now according to real clear averages. And the numbers coming out of there look terrible for McCain.
We are going to have to pick off a blue state to win this thing, and New Hampshire wont be enough.
If the election stopped today, based on the polls, the score is 269-269. Someone pointed out that could result in an Obama-Palin administration. McCain certainly has got to hang on to what he’s got and try to wrest one of the following Colorado, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michigan. He’s been hurt badly by the economic crisis. If things get back to normal, his chances go way up.
This weeks news, will not be next weeks news.
Presidential elections are weird animals, you never know what will be important. Reagan was trailing Carter for the longest time.
It is easy to dismiss polls I don’t like.
That said, I really think that only polls based on the turnout in 06 or 04 are very legitimate.
06 because it’s the latest national election year.
04 because it’s the latest national presidential election year.
I understand that most polls are inflating the number of democrats polled, and deflating the numbers of independents and republicans. I don’t know why, unless they really have reason to think that their new projected turnouts have a basis in reality.
Rasmussen has the most believable turnout ratios that I know of. Anyway with better info please post it.
I mean anyONE with better info please post it.
Every poll shows something different. I think it is the media trying to create a horse race.
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