Time: Obama Holds Leads in Key Swing States (Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio) as Election Nears

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Obama Holds Leads in Key Swing States as Election Nears

By Michael Duffy / Washington Friday, Oct. 31, 2008

Barack Obama

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1854898,00.html?cnn=yes



With less than a week of campaigning left, Democrat Barack Obama is holding stable or growing leads over Republican John McCain in Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio, according to a new set of TIME/CNN battleground-state polls conducted by Opinion Research Corp.

Obama leads McCain among likely voters by 51% to 47% in Ohio, a 4-point margin that has not budged since last week's TIME's survey. But he now leads McCain by 52% to 45% in Nevada and by 52% to 46% in North Carolina, margins which are both slightly larger than those reported by TIME in its surveys a week earlier.

The new statewide surveys also show Obama leading McCain in Pennsylvania, the key blue state in which McCain is making a last-ditch, major push to score an upset, by a comfortable 12-point margin of 55% to 43%. But Obama still trails his Republican rival in McCain's home state of Arizona by a 7-point margin of 46% to 53%.

Clinging to a narrow lead in Ohio, perhaps the most closely contested state in the nation, Obama continues to perform best with women of all races, who back him over McCain by a narrow but crucial 55% to 43% margin, a slight improvement from a week before.

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

1. If Obama could take Arizona...

That would be the icing on the cake....oh, scuse me, the meringue on the pie!

[Beetwasher]

2. Booyah!

n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. GOTV starts today

My house becomes GOTV central 5am Saturday for coordinating the GOTV effort in the community all the way through election day.

We will not lose Ohio. They may steal it but we will not lose it.