FOX/Rasmussen Swing State Polling

[red states rule]

Now some state polls are coming out, and the news is bad for Obama

In key swing states, the Palin factor is starting to show. The biggest surge is in Ohio where McCain is now up by 7


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Rasmussen Reports conducted five state telephone surveys in partnership with Fox News Channel on September 7, 2008. The surveys were conducted in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. A total of 500 Likely Voters were interviewed in each state using the Rasmussen Reports automated telephone survey methodology

These state results are quite consistent with the national trends. Overall, Obama consistently led McCain by a point or two in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for most of August. This morning, McCain is up by a single percentage point.

A number of themes emerge from the data that are consistent across all five states:

· McCain is trusted more than Obama in all five states.

· In all five states, McCain is viewed more favorably than Obama.

· Also, in all five states, Sarah Palin draws higher “Very Favorable” ratings than any other candidate.

· In all states except Colorado, McCain enjoys a bigger margin among Republicans than Obama does among Democrats. In Colorado, they are even.

· Economic issues are the top issue in all five states with national security matters a distant second.

· The number who would not be comfortable with Obama as President is higher in every state than the number saying the same about McCain. This is consistent with national polling data showing that McCain voters are more likely than Obama supporters to be primarily voting against the other candidate.

· Obama has the edge among unaffiliated voters in three states, McCain in two. Nationally, unaffiliated voters are fairly evenly divided.

· Pennsylvania has more undecided voters than any other state—seven percent (7%). Most of these are Democrats or unaffiliated voters.


http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ..._state_polling

[red states rule]

Here is a trend where libs can play the race card to explain it away


20-point shift towards McCain among white women since last month in new ABC poll

He’s still down one overall among registereds and up two among likelies, but Gallup pegged white independents last week as the only demographic group where there’s still a major gender gap and thus room for movement. And now, maybe, here it is. ABC doesn’t break down white women by political affiliation, but the 20-point swing is split almost evenly between Obama losing points (nine) and McCain gaining (11). Can’t be only conservative white women who are responsible for that.
To what or whom do we owe this happy reversal, I wonder. The left has been telling us for 10 days how insulted women are by Maverick’s very cynical pick of our token yokel with two X chromosomes, so it surely can’t be her. Hmmm.




http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/0...-new-abc-poll/

[theHawk]

Anyone wanna take bets on how long it will take for Obama to drop Biden? LOL