Posted on 09/21/2008 1:30:42 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
A new Quad-City Times and Lee Enterprises poll of Iowa voters shows Democrat Barack Obama holding a commanding lead in the state with a little more than six weeks to go before
Election Day.
In a survey of 600 likely voters who vote regularly in state elections, 53 percent said they would support Obama, and 39 percent said they would support Republican John McCain.
A total of 3 percent in the poll said they would support someone else, and another
5 percent were undecided.
(Excerpt) Read more at qctimes.com ...
Here’s the second poll this week showing The One with a double-digit lead in Iowa. McCain has never run strongly there and I don’t expect that this will be any exception.
Iowa is a problem. What is wrong with the farmers this year? Must want to keep their ethanol flowing.
No internals?
McCain opposes ethanol subsidies, which pretty much cooks his goose in a state like Iowa.
Wow! Just so much good news today!
Thank goodness that McCain leads in Virginia and Ohio and that 4 states which have been Democrat strongholds (Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Pennsylvania) are all toss ups.
This is all according to RealClearPolitics as of today.
Correction. Obama leads in St. Clair and Cook County Illinois. It’s sad, those two counties win the state for him.
Why would they waste money polling Illinois?
McCain is going to win this if he just sticks true to himself and doesn’t get thrown off message. He needs to follow his instincts and unload everything on Obama going into this last month. We need 527s, we need everyone on the ground getting everyone riles up. This election is going to be one to remember.
“Why would they waste money polling Illinois?”
To see if there’s a sudden shift of opinion there. Obama has never faced a competitive general election before.
Spot on.
I suspect that McCain will take Minnesota, Pennsylvania, or Michigan, maybe and even Wiskey.
If Obama holds all of Kerry’s states and takes NM, Iowa, and Colorado, it’s over - four to eight years of Obamanation.
Surprisingly I saw a poll yesterday that had obozo leading by six. If it weren’t for Chicago, Illinois would be as red as they get. But, with the enormous graveyard vote in Chicago, we downstaters just get drug along for the ride, oh and for the taxes that they fleece from us.
Good point. Take a look at how the Messiah did in Southern Illinois even in the primary.
I’d be surprised if Obama wins anything other than Chicago. But that will be enough to carry the state.
Actually, if McCain loses Colorado, NM, Iowa and takes MN, PA, and MI, that will more than make up for CO, NM and Iowa.
McCain would win.
McCain, though will take CO and NM.
Not that it will probably happen, but I would love to see a 50 state sweep for McCain/Palin! McCain/Palin carrying Illinois would be awesome and a major embarrassment for Obama/Biden (possibly even a change to Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton sometime before November 4).
But we will have a GOP governor in 2 years guaranteed. Dem party has made itself extremely unpopular here, just like in most other states where they have the governorships outside of the northeast.
That’s what I said essentially.
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