THE OBAMA SURGE: GAINING GROUND IN CRUCIAL STATES

[babylonsister]

Obama gaining crucial ground
Polling shifts in some key states
By Brian C. Mooney
Globe Staff / October 4, 2008


With 31 days until the election, Democrat Barack Obama's road to the White House is widening, and Republican John McCain's electoral path is narrowing.



The McCain campaign's decision this week to abandon Democratic-leaning Michigan is the most obvious and dramatic sign, a major tactical retreat that limits the ways he can reach the magic number of 270 electoral votes on Nov. 4.

But McCain is in as bad or worse shape in other battleground states. Barring a dramatic change, he is on course to lose Iowa and New Mexico, both states barely won by President Bush four years ago in his narrow victory over Democrat John F. Kerry. And he and the Republican National Committee this week began pouring money into Indiana and North Carolina, reliably Republican states where the Obama campaign has made strong advances and polls indicate the candidates are roughly tied.

The Obama campaign, meanwhile, has responded this week by significantly increasing its television advertising budget in Indiana and five other states and has even spent $350,000 to air spots continuously on a satellite TV channel, a first for a presidential hopeful.

The pendulum of the race has swung each way more than once over the course of the campaign, and with a month and two debates remaining, McCain has opportunities to recover.

But the Obama surge, coinciding over the last 10 days with the crisis on Wall Street and the debate over a federal bailout, has left McCain on the ropes in eight states with a combined 101 electoral votes that Bush carried four years ago. The Republican is slipping further behind not only in Michigan, but also in four other states that went Democratic four years ago, but which McCain hoped to pull into the GOP column this year.

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/10/04/obama_gaining_crucial_ground/

[nam78_two]

1. Recd with a smile

:D I am feeling so upbeat and optimistic! There are signs of change everywhere :bounce:!

[MarianJack]

2. Proud to be...

...the Recommend!

PEACE!

[BumRushDaShow]

3. The idiocy of the pundits

is that when you look at the 2000 and 2004 maps, where PA has voted for the Democrat... and then you go back even further and note that in 1996 AND in 1992, PA ALSO voted for the Democrat... And if you even go back to 1988, it was only a 2% squeaker for Poppy taking the state by running on Reagan's coattails.

But yet, they come back around and claim that PA is some sort of of "toss up" state. THIS Is what makes me livid. PA has become BLUER since 1988 but they just don't get it!

[MadMaddie]

4. No they get it

They choose not to report the facts. But I think they have no choice especially with the Obama/Biden ground game we have the truth coming out and there is nothing the pudndits can do about it. Since the pundits refused to do their job they are getting pushed aside...for aother media sources.

[chicagoexpat]

5. Lot more links here w/ links to state actions

http://loomisnews.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/i-got-a-feelin-mccain-campaign-adjusting-in-key-states-michigan-virginia-florida-indiana-n-carolina/

[WeDidIt]

6. That map gives Obam 269 EVs

That's a win.

He takes any of the yellow states, it's a clear win.

McCain takes ALL of the yellow states, he'll still lose in the House.