An interesting factoid from yesterday's ABC/WaPo tracker: In those crucial states decided by five or fewer points in 2004, Obama is up 21 points.
A new SurveyUSA poll gives Barack Obama a 49%-45% in Indiana, with a ±4% margin of error, compared to a 48%-45% McCain lead from three weeks ago. The most recent three polls of this race now give Obama the lead in a state that hasn't gone Democratic since the 1964 LBJ landslide.
Sooprize, sooprize, the NYT endorses Barack Obama.
"It will be an enormous challenge just to get the nation back to where it was before Mr. Bush, to begin to mend its image in the world and to restore its self-confidence and its self-respect. Doing all of that, and leading America forward, will require strength of will, character and intellect, sober judgment and a cool, steady hand.
Mr. Obama has those qualities in abundance. Watching him being tested in the campaign has long since erased the reservations that led us to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries. He has drawn in legions of new voters with powerful messages of hope and possibility and calls for shared sacrifice and social responsibility."From a recent poll of rural areas, which George Bush won by 15 points in '04:
A poll of rural voters in battleground states shows that this critical group of voters moved toward Democrat Barack Obama during a three-week period in October.
The Center for Rural Strategies poll, commissioned on behalf of the National Rural Assembly, sampled rural voters in 13 swing states from Oct. 1-21. During these three weeks the poll found that Obama led McCain 46 to 45 percent, which is within the poll's 3.38 percent margin of error.
Democrat analyst and pollster Anna Greenberg of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research said that the poll shows erosion in Republican support among rural voters and that this is a good sign for Obama.
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We totally get to take credit for any gains in Indiana, right?
As for the fantasy football thing, in one of the posts I read about it yesterday (I can't remember which), they commented that it's just more proof of how cool Barack is, which may be one of the biggest things resonating with younger voters. All of the other recent candidates who garnered huge support among young voters--Dean, Nader, Paul--are hard to describe as cool. But, Barack plays fantasy football, he can talk hip hop slang without it sounding fake, and he's a mean baller. It's all surface, but it strikes a chord.
I love that Obama trash talked Reilly. B.O. is the cool guy that Clinton thought he was when he played his sax on Arsenio.
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Speaking of Indiana, here is an insight from my friend Kent who lives in affluent Indianapolis suburb Carmel:
The Indy Star (a Republican rag if there ever was one) publishes daily several letters from people raving about the dangers of the coming Marxist, communist, Muslim, terrorist, Hawaiian, big gay government taxation state. But even in here in Carmel, richest town in the richest county in the Hoosier state, Obama yard signs outnumber McCain ones by probably 4:1. So if turnout is high among those who are excited, we just might get 50.0001%. But like I said, it’s all good if McCain is forced to spend a million dollars here that he can’t spend in Ohio or Florida. Election night in Grant Park should be beyond memorable. Personally, we’ll be celebrating at home since it’s a school night (you know, drinking Belgian beer, burning flags, eating stem-cell caviar, the usual Liberal stuff).
stem-cell caviar! yum
btw--obama is the only candidate who took up reilly's offer to play fantasy football.
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