Posted on 10/13/2008 3:36:27 PM PDT by Publius804
FOX News/Rasmussen Reports Poll: Obama Leads in Ohio, 49% to 47%
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has gained a lead over his opponent in the swing state of Ohio, according to a recent poll.
Barack Obama has pulled ahead of John McCain in Ohio, the weekly FOX News/Rasmussen Reports Battleground Poll shows.
This week's poll shows a very stable race whose underlying dynamic strongly favors the Democratic presidential candidate. Obama holds a narrow advantage ranging from two to five percentage points in Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Missouri, and he is tied with McCain in North Carolina. Keep in mind that George W. Bush won all five of these states in 2004.
The only notable change this week was in Ohio, where Obama is now on top, 49 percent to 47 percent, overcoming a one-point deficit in each of the previous two weeks and an even larger lead for McCain in the Buckeye State in the weeks prior to that. The race for Ohio's 20 Electoral College votes is now well within the margin of sampling error, but trending toward the Democrat.
In Virginia, a state that no Democrat has won since 1964, Obama earns 50 percent support for the third straight week while McCain is at 47 percent. Those results are essentially unchanged from each of the past two weeks.
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The steel workers are for Hussein.
“I’m Baracko Buma and I approved these poll numbers.”
McCain’s campaign has sent an incoherent message about 0bama.
It has failed to define him.
What good is talking about William Ayers or ACORN if the campaign doesn’t use these associations to draw a conclusion about 0bama?
McCain needs to use not one, but rather the aggregate of 0bama’s influences in life to bring him into focus. Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Saul Alinsky, ACORN, The Democratic Socialists of America, The New Party. What do they all have in common?
The answer: a dangerous, radical, far left ideology.
McCain must make this about ideology, and take 0bama’s associations as instructive. He should highlight that Saul Alinsky taught radicals to cut their hair, put on a suit, and take down the government from the inside, and 0bama was so versed in Alinsky’s tactics that he taught them to ACORN activists.
McCain’s ACORN ad reveals that 0bama taught for ACORN, but it never reveals the substance of what he taught.
The substance is what we need to understand 0bama. The substance is what makes it tangible.
McCain needs to call 0bama a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A clean-cut radical with very little papertrail infiltrating the system in order to destroy it.
Exposing 0bama’s radical agenda and properly identifying it as Socialism would be enough to ensure his defeat. It is what McCain must do.
In was held today, McCAIN WINS!!!
This will swing handily in McCain’s favor the next three weeks.
There’s a Fox News poll? I thought Fox News simply regurgitated the BS that is the Gallup tracking poll. [/sarc]
That’s not enough for Obama to win on election day. The “election correction” for Ohio polls (see 2000 & 2004 for this day in history) is 8-10 points in favor of the GOP. Obama loses with these numbers.
Dems oversampled by 10%
Is anyone else tired of hearing how far behind we aren’t?
The STEAL workers are for Hussein
The problem is is that it appears that McCain is still obsessed with “bipartisan unity,” and it has blinded him. He needs to stop being so “nice” and stand up and fight for what is right! For the sake of our country, he needs to do it!
When McCain ties Obama to teaching ACORN without telling what he taught, I can see where that could be construed as racist. And that’s exactly what the media want.
How is points within the margin of error “pulling ahead”?
“very stable race”???
Shows a very stable poll, maybe. But stable and wrong is still wrong.
Don’t trust any polls, they only make you feel ugly...
I get that any race could be close, but I can’t see it here....Obama is such a lightweight and everyone is just giving him a pass.
No wonder Obama is buying air time. He’s going down.....one way or another. I just can’t see the American people electing this socialist.
Meant to say: 2 points within the margin of error...
Pure bull.
Except of course for adding in 3% for an ACORN vote.
Closer than where they were in 04 when we were all sooooo certian it was a Kerry lock.
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