With strong support from women, blacks and younger voters, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the apparent Democratic presidential contender, leads Arizona Sen. John McCain, expected to be the Republican candidate, among likely voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to simultaneous Quinnipiac University Swing State polls released today.
This is the first time Sen. Obama has led in all three states. No one has been elected President since 1960 without taking two of these three largest swing states in the Electoral College. Results from the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University polls show:
Florida: Obama edges McCain 47 - 43 percent;
Ohio: Obama tops McCain 48 - 42 percent;
Pennsylvania: Obama leads McCain 52 - 40 percent.
In the three states, Obama leads McCain 10 to 23 percentage points among women, while men are too close to call. The Democrat trails among white voters in Florida and Ohio, but gets more than 90 percent of black voters in each state. He also has double-digit leads among young voters in each state.
I had a conversation with a Hillary supporter who told me that Obama could not win. When I said that was ridiculous she accused me of hanging out with the "wrong people".
I guess many of those "wrong people" also live in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
This was great news - just goes to show how wrong all the Hillary supporters (and Hillary) were, saying that only she could take the "big states" that were critical in the general election. All along that made no sense when the Democrats were being split down the middle. Have you noticed how much better it feels now that it's down to just Obama and McCain? The differences are becoming so clear without the constant interference from the Democratic differences, which on a policy basis, after all, were always so minor.
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