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Time/CNN Poll: Obama Maintains Lead In Key Battleground States
“Obama gained the most ground in North Carolina, where he now leads John McCain among likely voters by 51% to 47%, up four percentage points from earlier this month when a similar poll showed the two tied at 49%. In Nevada, Obama expanded his lead to 51% to 46%, up a percentage point from September. Similarly, in the crucial swing state of Ohio, Obama leads the Arizona senator by a 50% to 46% margin, an increase of one percentage point from his lead earlier this month. In Virginia, a state that increasingly looks to be solidly in Obama’s corner, the Illinois senator remains 10 percentage points ahead 54% to 44%. Still, Obama’s ability to make inroads into red states does appear to have some limits; he lost ground in West Virginia — a state his campaign has said they are just starting to contest — and now trails there by 41% to McCain’s 53%, more than doubling McCain’s September lead of 49% to Obama’s 44%.” [Link]
Obama Leads McCain By 9 In Fox News Poll
“Less than two weeks before Election Day, Barack Obama leads John McCain 49 percent to 40 percent among likely voters, according to a FOX News poll released Wednesday. Obama’s advantage comes mainly from independents, and from the fact that more voters identify themselves as Democrats these days and almost all of them back their party’s nominee. Eighty-eight percent of Democrats support Obama, and 83 percent of Republicans back McCain. Independents break 44 percent to 35 percent in Obama’s favor. In addition to independents, white Catholics are another important swing voting group and they support Obama 50 percent to 39 percent. White Catholics have voted for the winner in each of the last four presidential elections.” [Link]
McCain In Danger Of Losing Florida
“The Arizona Senator may have Crist and a Republican-controlled legislature behind him. But Florida’s deepening economic crisis, as well as the fact that McCain passed him over for the vice presidential slot that many Floridians thought he should get, seems to have made Crist a less than ardent McCain campaigner this fall. By most accounts, McCain’s national campaign staff has done a dismal job coordinating with the usually potent GOP machine on the ground in Florida. ‘This is a Florida campaign being run out of Washington,’ says a concerned GOP official in Tallahassee, ‘and it’s remarkable how little it has its finger on the pulse of this state.’ ” [Link]
Obama, McCain Get Jokey At Al Smith Dinner
“John McCain and Barack Obama swapped self-deprecating jokes instead of campaign jabs Thursday night, the Republican saying he had replaced his team of senior advisers with ‘Joe the Plumber’ while the Democrat claimed his own ‘greatest strength would be my humility.’” [Link]
New Poll Shows Obama Over McCain By 14 Percent
“The Obama-Biden ticket now leads the McCain-Palin ticket 53 percent to 39 percent among likely voters, a 14-point margin. One week ago, prior to the Town Hall debate that uncommitted voters saw as a win for Obama, that margin was just three points.
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McCain Negatives Jump After Ayers Attacks
“McCain has made little headway in his attempts to convince voters that Obama is too ‘risky’ or too ‘liberal.’ Rather, recent strategic shifts may have hurt the Republican nominee, who now has higher negative ratings than his rival and is seen as mostly attacking his opponent rather than addressing the issues that voters care about. ” [Link]
Labor Leader Warns About Rabid McCain-Palin Crowds
“‘Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin and the leadership of the Republican party have a fundamental moral responsibility to denounce the violent rhetoric that has pervaded recent McCain and Palin political rallies,’ said John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, which has endorsed Obama. ‘When rally attendees shout out such attacks as ‘terrorist’ or ‘kill him’ about Sen. Barack Obama, when they are cheered on by crowds incited by McCain-Palin rhetoric — it is chilling that McCain and Palin do nothing to object. ” [Link]
Troopergate Report Shows Palin As Amateur Governor
“Is the Palin administration shockingly amateurish? Yes, it is. Disturbingly so. The 263 pages of the report show a co-ordinated application of pressure on Monegan so transparent and ham-handed that it was almost certain to end in public embarrassment for the governor. The only surprise is that Troopergate is national news, not just a sorry piece of political gristle to be chewed on by Alaska politicos over steaks at Anchorage’s Club Paris. ” [Link]
Defeat Of Bailout Bill Hurts McCain
“The defeat reflects poorly on Sen. John McCain — who made a dramatic return to Washington last week in the hopes of salvaging a deal that ultimately collapsed — as well as the Democratic-controlled Congress, which looks powerless in the face of crisis. ‘It’s ugly,’ said Whit Ayres, a Republican political consultant. ‘It makes the Congress look pretty irresponsible. But the more negative the current environment, the higher the hill McCain has to climb.’” [Link]
Obama: McCain On Economics Like Katrina
“‘Sen. McCain doesnt get it. He doesn’t understand the storm that hit Wall Street hit Main Street long ago,’ Obama said, standing before the Detroit Public Library. ‘ That’s why his first response to the greatest financial meltdown in generations was a Katrina-like response. He sort of stood there. He said the fundamental of the economy are strong. It’s why he’s been shifting positions these last two weeks, looking for photo-ops, trying to figure out what to say and what to do.’” [Link]