Posted on 07/24/2008 12:31:47 PM PDT by americanophile
If John McCain and his loyalists were hoping for something to brighten their day amid the blizzard of coverage of Barack Obama's foreign tour, they've gotten it with new poll results from four key states -- Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The survey by the Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, conducted between July 14 and Tuesday, contains especially good news for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in Colorado and Minnesota.
In Colorado, the one state among the four that President Bush carried in 2004, the poll showed McCain ahead by 2 percentage points. That lead is within the poll's margin of error, but it represents a positive trend for the Arizona senator; in a Quinnipiac survey a month ago, Obama led in the state by 5 percentage points.
The poll found McCain making even greater strides in Minnesota, host of the convention where McCain will formally become his party's nominee in early September. Obama's advantage over McCain there now is negligible -- 2 percentage points -- compared with a 17-point lead the same survey gave the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in June.
Here are the new results:
Colorado (nine electoral votes): McCain 46%, Obama 44% (in June, Obama 49%, McCain 44%).
Michigan (17 electoral votes): Obama 46%, McCain 42% (in June, Obama 48%, McCain 42%).
Minnesota (10 electoral votes): Obama 46%, McCain 44% (in June, Obama 54%, McCain 37%).
Wisconsin (10 electoral votes): Obama, 50%, McCain 39% (in June, Obama 52%, McCain 39%).
The Quinnipiac release on its poll notes that McCain "has picked up support in almost every group in every state, especially among independent voters and men voters."
Summarizing the change over the last month, Peter Brown, the poll's assistant director, says that Obama's "post-primary bubble hasn't burst, but it is leaking a bit."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Well, anyone with a lick of sense and an interest in their security and prosperity would not give a thought to voting for Obama.
While you were away, I talked to the American People.....The people who will vote for President of the USA in November. They are of every race and religion. There are soldiers in every Town representing their buddies overseas, proud of their work and determined to fulfill their duty.
Sorry you missed the boat!!
John
Btch Wisconsin is much closer than that.
Wisconsin (10 electoral votes): Obama, 50%, McCain 39% (in June, Obama 52%, McCain 39%).
The RNC should write off both states. They both have same day voter registration fraud. If it looks close on election day, lots of homeless people will be bussed in from Chicago to register and vote multiple times.
Oops, Betcha its closeser than 50-39.
I believe Wisconsin was stolen from Bush in both 2000 and 2004.
Cigarettes in Milwalkee and all.
Good.
Why can’t the RNC do the same?
The only way to stop voter fraud is the beat them at it.
Don't forget Michigan and Pennsylvania. If it looks close, all they have to do is to bus in people from the slums in Philadelphia and Detroit.
Note to Barry: “While you were day tripping in Europe, something strange happened at home, Thanks to all the media following your Obamapalooza tour, American voters got turned off. Who gives a rats ass how many Germans turned up to see you?.....THEY DON’T VOTE!
This pandering to Europe stuff is going to backfire on Obama...
Oh no, I got my hopes up when I saw it was Quinnipiac. They’re not always wrong but their record isn’t that great either. They are the ones that showed Bush up by 2 in PA the week before the ‘04 vote.
In any case, any numbers showing McCain gaining are good news. They will create some momentum for the GOP and make the Dems more nervous. That MN number is amazing, and i find it a bit hard to believe. Obama goes from a 17 point lead a month ago to 2 now? I don’t know. McCain suddenly is ahead by 2 in CO while he had been trailing there for months? I hope that is accurate but I am skeptical. I think this campaign will be an emotional roller coaster, just like the last one. We will be bombarded with numbers every hour from now til Nov. 4.
Agree. We’ve been through this now in two election cycles with Bush. And throw NJ in there too, where every time it “looks close” and every time it’s exactly the same margin of loss.
It may be that the energy issue will be decisive if McCain has the sense to use it unabashedly to expose Obama's feeble judgment. McCan should go stand in ANWR, explain that billions of barrels of oil lie untapped beneath this "empty field" because Obama and his ilk have outlawed it's development.
He should go on to predict that soon enough, the people should expect to hear the predictable Obama flipflop on drilling-- and when it happens, recognize it for what it is.
That's how you corner the skinny-assed socialist rat.
Ten reasons Tim Pawlenty will be the Veep.
1) He’s qualified.
2) He’s pro-life.
3) He’s younger.
4) He’s been elected and re-elected in Minnesota.
5) He’s a Christian.
6) He’ll make McCain more competitive in MN, WI, and Iowa.
7) The convention is in Minnesota.
8) He’s backed McCain all along.
9) He’s a Governor.
10) His wife, Mary.
While the GOP does nothing.
Good news, but it shouldn’t even be close!
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