The states that make up the NCAA’s Big Ten Conference also make up 117 Electoral Votes, more than 40% of the amount needed to win the election, and, right now at least, Barack Obama is leading in all of them:
As the race for the White House enters its final days, the Big Ten Battleground Poll shows Barack Obama holding double-digit leads over John McCain in eight crucial Midwest states.
The individual surveys of between 562 and 586 randomly selected registered voters and those likely to register to vote before the election in each of the states were conducted by phone with live interviewers from Oct. 19-22 and were co-directed by University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientists Charles Franklin and Ken Goldstein with the cooperation of colleagues from participating Big Ten universities. The polls each have a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points. The states included in the poll were Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota, home to the 11 universities in the Big Ten conference.
Here are the numbers from each state:
The one surprise here is Indiana. The only other recent poll in the Hoosier State, from Rasmussen, showed McCain up by seven points. If Obama really is leading, or even within the margin of error there, then things are pretty bad for John McCain.
H/T: Ron Chusid
