A poll released Tuesday by Arizona State University and the local PBS affiliate showed the Arizona senator leading Obama by 2 percent, 46 percent to 44 percent. The poll of 1,019 registered voters was conducted over the weekend. The same poll showed McCain up 7 percent a month ago.
The latest Rasmussen poll of 500 likely [...]
John McCain’s campaign is looking for a scapegoat. It is looking for someone to blame if McCain loses on Tuesday.
And it has decided on Sarah Palin.
Link:Politico.com.
“And I devoutly hope that [she] would never be tested,” he added for good measure — referring both to Palin’s policy dexterity and the idea of McCain not making it through his time in office.
Link: The Huffington Post
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 [...]
A University of Texas poll to be released today shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain and GOP Sen. John Cornyn leading by comfortable margins in Texas, as expected. But the statewide survey of 550 registered voters has one very surprising finding: 23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a [...]
Palin’s popularity with Alaska voters has dropped precipitously, from a high of roughly 90 percent this spring — long before she was selected to join the McCain ticket — to an approval rating now of around 60 percent.
Link:newsminer.com
Democrats are dominating early voting in six key states President Bush won four years ago, forcing Republican John McCain to play catch-up even before Election Day arrives.
Democrats outnumber Republicans among early voters in Iowa, North Carolina, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, according to statistics from election and party officials in those states. Bush won [...]
In the swing state of Colorado, Obama posts an 8-point lead over McCain, besting him 53 percent to 45 percent. He holds a similar advantage in Pennsylvania, where he tops McCain by 9 percentage points, 51 percent to 42 percent.
Link:Politico.com.
One week out from election day, the Republican National Committee is going up with advertising in Montana, a Democratic source tells the Huffington Post. It is yet another instance of Republicans having to defend their own turf — President Bush won the state by over 20 points in 2004.
Link: The Huffington Post.
Project New West, which aims to build the Democratic Party in the Intermountain West, says the Republican leads Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the Grand Canyon State, 48 percent to 44 percent.
The pollsters call that a “dramatic shift” from a survey they took in mid-September, which had McCain ahead by 14 points, 54 percent to [...]
