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Presidential election minus 21 days

A new swing state has come on to the radar courtesy of the Public Affairs Institute at Minnesota State University Moorhead, which has conducted a poll of 606 voters in North Dakota showing Barack Obama leading John McCain 45 per cent to 43 per cent. That might not be much to go on – the state was last surveyed a month ago by Rasmussen, who had McCain leading 53 per cent to 40 per cent – but it’s enough to put it in the Obama column for purposes of my own polling aggregate methodology. As explained in previous posts, this involves using all the polling going back to October 1 or as much of it as is necessary to produce a sample of over 3000, with each poll weighted according to its sample and adjusted according to the shift in the Real Clear Politics national poll average since the day it was conducted. Note that McCain remains curiously competitive in Ohio.

Obama McCain Sample D-EV R-EV
Michigan 54.2 38.1 3196 17
Pennsylvania 53.2 39.2 3680 21
Iowa 54.4 40.7 692 7
Washington 54.3 41.8 1244 11
Wisconsin 52.0 41.2 4923 10
New Hampshire 53.0 42.5 2760 4
Minnesota 50.2 43.0 3195 10
New Mexico 49.4 42.4 2427 5
Colorado 51.2 44.7 4281 9
Maine 51.5 45.9 500 4
Nevada 49.5 45.5 3599 5
West Virginia 48.6 45.0 1122 5
Florida 49.1 47.0 3530 27
North Carolina 48.0 45.9 3574 15
Missouri 49.0 47.6 4018 11
North Dakota 45.1 44.0 1206 3
Virginia 48.1 47.8 3811 13
Ohio 47.2 49.1 3151 20
Indiana 45.2 48.3 1977 11
Others - - - 175 155
RCP/Total 49.5 43.2 - 352 186

505 Comments

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  1. 501
    Dario
    Posted Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 2:04 pm | Permalink

    No, the suggestion is that that’s what she would do if she was FLOTUS

    As opposed to rich Cindy lol, good luck with that!

    In this case it was presumably at campaign contributors’ expense

    Yep, and I’m sure they wouldn’t mind as long as he wins

  2. 502
    Spam Box
    Posted Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 2:12 pm | Permalink

    Adam – the youtube was very funny

  3. 503
    Diogenes
    Posted Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 2:26 pm | Permalink

    Deary dear me.

    Would Michelle Obama really need TWO lobsters by herself? I thought that was a bit suspicious. So I did a bit of checking. The docket from the Waldorf is dated 15/10 at 4pm.

    http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/a-little-snack-for-michelle-obama/

    Michelle Obama was in Fort Wayne Indiana campaigning at 1pm on the 15/10.

    I will say no more. But quite a bit comes to mind. Let’s wait and see how the facts come out on this one.

    http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/rickscalf/gGgb9Y

  4. 504
    juliem
    Posted Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 3:12 pm | Permalink

    Dio @ 503,

    Sounds like someone is doing their homework, good on you :) ……. I couldn’t eat two lobsters all by myself ;-) …..

    Don’t think that by the time that the polls open on Election Day that there will be any rock left unturned by the Republicans. Problem is that they aren’t turning anything up by trying. Perhaps the best we can hope for is that the Republicans themselves crawl back under those rocks and get out of our life ;-) ……

  5. 505
    Posted Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 3:13 pm | Permalink

    New thread.

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