North Dakota: Obama and McCain tied at 43% each

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In a state which has not given its electoral votes to a democrat for president since '64.

North Dakota is as safe a Republican state as any in Presidential elections. George W. Bush carried the state by twenty-seven points in Election 2004 and twenty-eight points four years earlier. The state has voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate just once since 1936 and three times since 1916.

Despite that history, John McCain and Barack Obama are tied in the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of North Dakota voters. Both men earn 43% of the vote. When leaners are included, McCain holds a statistically insignificant one-point advantage, 47% to 46%. Last week, a Rasmussen Reports survey showed Obama with a five-point advantage in neighboring Montana. That state, too, has a long history of voting Republican at the Presidential level but both states also have two Democratic U.S. Senators. McCain is returning the favor by running much stronger than recent Republicans in New Jersey

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/north_dakota/election_2008_north_dakota_presidential_election

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1. Good

We won't win it, but it will throw some more chaos the GOP's way and siphon off some more of their money.

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2. and I believe Ed Schultz has helped Obama there also /nt

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3. LOL - at this point I really do sympathize with the MSM leaning McCain and trying to play up ...

every little pseudo half-gaffe from Obama -- they're just trying to manufacture some suspense! They can hardly start being honest and refer to Barack as "President-Elect-Presumptive Obama." Tim Russert isn't missing a thing. He checked out at just about the right time for a devotee of the horse-race.