Obama leads McCain by 5 to 8 points in Pennsylvania

[RamboLiberal]

Barack Obama and John McCain are locked in a tight race for Pennsylvania's electoral votes, but voters side with Obama on many of the issues most important to them, according to a poll released today.

Obama is favored among those who say they're most concerned about the economy, the Iraq war or health care, which are the top issues facing voters, according to the Franklin & Marshall College poll. They believe McCain will continue the domestic and foreign policies of the deeply unpopular President Bush, according to the poll.

Obama has pulled even among voters in the conservative central part of the state, a worrisome sign for McCain, said G. Terry Madonna, director of Franklin & Marshall's Keystone Poll, conducted between Aug. 4 and Sunday.

Still, Obama leads McCain among likely voters by only 5 percentage points, within the poll's margin of error.

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Among all registered voters, Obama's lead grows to 8 percentage points. The poll -- concluded two weeks before the back-to-back national political conventions -- includes the opinions of 641 people across the state and has an error margin of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points. Among likely voters, a smaller sample size, the margin of error grows to plus or minus 5.1 percentage points.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_582566.html

[saltpoint]

1. Very encouraging.

Ridge might give McCain a teensy bounce but Obama is going to carry Pennsylvania, IMO.

And if favorite-son Ridge nudges McCain's number up in PA, he brings them sharply down in states with large fundie blocks. A total risk for McCain, and not even one likely to bring him Pennsylvania.

Thank you for posting this.

[bigdarryl]

2. Damn I though it would be a larger lead than that I guess most people are still on vacation

[book_worm]

3. But the media will say "Why isn't Obama doing better" even tho Kerry won PA by 2.5%