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AllState/National Journal Battleground Polls

18 Sep 2008 01:00 pm

Yes -- we have our own tracking poll (Hotline-Diageo) And our own weekly battleground state surveys too. (National Journal.)

First, from a sample of 2015 registered voters in Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Ohio and Virginia, the head-to-head:

Obama 44%

McCain: 44%

Now, to the states:  

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Drilling down a bit, less than 40% of voters in all of those states except for New Mexico believe that Barack Obama is more prepared to be president than John McCain. Perhaps the "threshold" question is moot; maybe the commander-in-chief threshold is artificial in a change election.

NJ's polling is conducted by Financial Dynamics; Ed Reilly, a Democrat, and Brent McGoldrick, a Republican, supervise the field work and analysis. We're not pretending that these are non-partisan polls... we call 'em bipartisan polls...

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