McClatchy: New polls paint bleak battleground electoral map for McCain

[babylonsister]

New polls paint bleak battleground electoral map for McCain

By Steven Thomma and Marc Caputo | McClatchy Newspapers


A series of polls released Thursday provide a bleak outlook for John McCain, even in states that have long voted Republican.

The polls found him behind in the critical battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania and suggest he is behind even in solidly red states such as Indiana.

The polls suggest that his talk about "Joe the plumber" has had little positive impact on his election hopes.

Even in Florida, where a Mason-Dixon poll earlier this week suggested that talk of the economy had helped McCain, a new Miami Herald poll on Thursday showed him trailing Democrat Barack Obama by 49-42 percent.

And while that margin still was too small, with an error margin off 3.5 percent, to say definitively that Florida was favoring Obama, the poll found some key indicators that Florida was falling further and further from McCain:

-- McCain is behind in Southwest Florida, a once-reliable Republican base. And he's ahead in only one region, conservative North Florida -- and only by 7 percentage points.

-- Obama has tied McCain among Florida voters over 65 years old. They backed McCain by 7 more percentage points than Obama in a poll the Herald did last month, taken just as news of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy precipitated the economic crisis.

-- Only 35 percent of Floridians say that McCain demonstrated more leadership during the crisis and has a better plan to fix it. Compare that to the 45 percent who say Obama demonstrated better leadership and the 49 percent who say Obama has a better plan to fix the economy.

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[Arkana]

1. The people who post those "OMG THEYRE GONNA STEAL IT"

threads should read this. They should realize that at this late point of the election, every day that goes by with Obama with SUCH a lead in the polls is making it harder and harder to justify a surprise McCain win by any other means than voter fraud.

[babylonsister]

2. I just flipped on to faux through sheer boredom; they're talking

about how close the polls are getting. I just wonder what polls they're looking at.