Posted on 10/01/2008 10:21:06 AM PDT by rwfromkansas
New polls show Obama breaking away in key states Posted: 12:55 PM ET New state polls show Obama with clear leads. New state polls show Obama with clear leads.
(CNN) – New polls released Wednesday morning suggest the race for the White House could be breaking for Barack Obama in three key battleground states.
Just-released Quinnipiac University surveys show Obama with wide leads in Pennsylvania and Ohio, as well as Florida — the showdown state in the 2000 presidential race where John McCain has had held an advantage for most of the summer.
Quinnipiac's new survey in Pennsylvania shows Obama with a stunning 14 point-lead over McCain, 54-39 percent. Averaging that survey with other recent Pennsylvania polls, the latest CNN poll of polls there shows a 10-point lead for Obama in the state that only voted for John Kerry by a 2-point margin in 2004. Several polls released earlier this month in Pennsylvania suggested Obama's lead there was in the mid single digits.
A new Quinnipiac Ohio poll also released Wednesday morning shows Obama leading McCain by 8 points there.
A new Quinnipiac Florida poll also shows big gains for Obama, with the Illinois senator now holding an 8 point lead, 51 to 43 percent. There is also not enough recent polling in Florida to conduct a poll of polls there, though a survey from ARG earlier this week showed Obama with a statistically insignificant 1-point lead.
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I normally would not be concerned about one poll with the others still showing a tie, but this shows a big Obama lead in three states including Florida.
Have any other recent polls shown a movement to O?
They’re about the least accurate poll there is, IIRC.
Typically, university polls are trash anyway. Qunnipiac is just that much worse.
BS polls drive the “news”, with the hope that the tail wags the dog.
My guess is the samples were 60% Dem, 25% GOP and 15% undecided socialists.
Made it a mandate to myself: Ignore the polls, they will either give false hope, or false discouragement.
About as accurate as CNN’s online poll: Who do you want to win the election? 87% Obama, 6% McCain, 5% Nader
They think 0bama is going to win Florida? ROTFL.
Obama would need to be leading by 10-12 points nationally for these polls to be taken seriously. He’s not.
Q polls are progaganda-
Used today to get the Republican base worried and scared and not want to fight.
I cant wait till Nov 5 and the shock on some of these MSM types’ faces.
Gallup has McCain down by only four today...an increase of +4 over the last three days.
The State by State race is a bit more complex. Florida and Ohio are actually looking good for McCain. His problems are Virginia and Colorado, both of which he will absolutely need if he can't take Pennsylvania.
I can’t help but wonder if all these bad polls are right
and it’s the massive get out the vote machine Obama’s team
claims to have. Maybe all these new voters are showing up in the polling??
I can’t help but wonder if all these bad polls are right
and it’s the massive get out the vote machine Obama’s team
claims to have. Maybe all these new voters are showing up in the polling??
These may or may not be accurate and I’m not going to let polls guide my thinking in any event.
What does guide my thinking is what I see the candidates doing and I see Obama winning the argument, that the financial crisis is the result of Bush, McCain and “deregulation”, despite that being the exact opposite of the truth.
And I see McCain doing.... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
You can’t win an election like this with your thumb up your own patoot.
Qunnipiac is heavily weighted to the Left, and always has been. Any poll associated with CNN must be taken with a gallon of Liberal Salt.
These Q polls are a joke.
These are they wish polls.
I really don’t see how Obama wins Ohio. There is outright racism amongst blue collar democrats in the south, strong republicanism in the rural areas and declining population in the urban centers where he should do well.
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