Obama jumps ahead in three key states

[babylonsister]

War Room
By Alex Koppelman
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008 09:40 EDT

Obama jumps ahead in three key states


What a difference a few weeks -- and an economic crisis -- can make. There are some pretty remarkable results from a respected pollster out today, showing Barack Obama with a substantial lead in three states on which the election may very well hinge: Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

This round of data comes from surveys conducted in the wake of Friday's presidential debate. It shows Obama leading John McCain 51-43 in Florida, 50-42 in Ohio and 54-39 in Pennsylvania. The margin of error for each poll is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.

The polls were conducted by Quinnipiac University, which is one of the top five national pollsters in Nate Silver's rankings, beating out many of the big boys -- Gallup, ABC News/Washington Post, CNN/Opinion Research Dynamics and CBS/New York Times, for example.

There's more in the poll results to make Obama supporters smile. In each state, for example, respondents said Obama won the debate over McCain. In each state, roughly 60 percent of respondents said the economy was the most important issue to them this election. Moreover, in each state, when respondents were asked which candidate they trust to deal with the economy, Obama had a comfortable lead. (He beat McCain 53-39 on that question in Florida, 50-39 in Ohio and 55-36 in Pennsylvania.)

These results also represent a major shift in the race. On Sept. 11, Quinnipiac released numbers that are very different from today's. In that round of surveys, McCain led in Florida, 50-43, and Obama had much smaller leads in Ohio and Pennsylvania -- 49-44 and 48-45 respectively.

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http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/?last_story=/politics/war_room/2008/10/01/quinnipiac/

[livetohike]

1. No wonder Morning Joe and Chuck Todd didn't give

all the Quinnipiac poll results this morning. They only mentioned Ohio's numbers.

GOBAMA!

[babylonsister]

2. I missed that; that's so dishonest. But I guess they won't have

many more opportunities to try and paint this race as tied.

[TexasObserver]

3. Open one can of WhupAss. Apply liberally to cranky old GOP nominees.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Yep....that's it! :)