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Florida, Florida, Florida

by Doug Mataconis @ 12:19 pm on July 23, 2008.

The list of toss-up states in the 2008 Presidential Election just keeps growing.

We’ve already talked about North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, Montana and South Dakota, and even Indiana.

Now, Florida joins the list:

Barack Obama has caught up to John McCain in Florida. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds Obama with a statistically insignificant one-point advantage over his rival, 46% to 45%. When “leaners” are included, the Democrat leads 49% to 47%.

Over the past six months, McCain has maintained leads ranging from seven to sixteen percentage points. Last month, McCain led 48% to 41% in the Sunshine State.

In other words, McCain has lost ground in Florida since June while Obama has seemingly overcome the problems he supposedly had with older and Jewish voters in that state arising out of the primary fight with Hillary Clinton.

This is bad news for McCain only because he absolutely needs both Ohio and Florida if he’s going to pull off a win here.

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2 Responses to “Florida, Florida, Florida”

  1. KipEsquire Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    This reinforces my thesis that the anti-gay advocacy groups will pretty much forego any efforts in California and focus exclusively on the ballot initatives in Florida and Arizona. They can’t afford to lose two or even three bigot proposals.

  2. D.J. McGuire Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    This looks like the first reaction from the Maliki comments.

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