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Yesterday, Bruce Springsteen performed at an Obama rally in Philadelphia.
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Obama’s poll numbers are rising across in pretty much every battleground state. Yesterday, polls showed Obama getting over 50% of the vote in the traditional battleground states of Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

FLORIDA: Obama 51, McCain 43

OHIO: Obama 50, McCain 42

PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 54, McCain 39

The reason for Obama’s bump has a lot to do with the economy becoming such a big issues. However, Sarah Palin is helping Obama’s poll numbers out as well.

Public Policy Polling surveyed four states immediately after the Republican convention and then again three weeks later. In those states, Gov. Sarah Palin’s favorability has dropped by a net average of 12 points, and Sen. Barack Obama’s standing in the horse race has improved by an average of seven points.

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A new KCCI poll done by Research 2000 shows Barack Obama with another large lead in Iowa.

The new poll interviewed 600 Iowans on Monday and Tuesday who regularly vote in elections for opinion on the upcoming presidential election.

The latest KCCI poll shows that if the election were held today, 55 percent of those surveyed would vote for Obama, 39 percent for McCain. The poll has a magin of error of 4 percent.

Obama has lead in Iowa by double digits in 4 of the past 5 polls done since the conventions.

However, the McCain campaign is seeing things differently…

“We’ve seen such a variety of polls. Sometimes we’re up. Sometimes we’re down. I think the bottom line is this is going to be a very close election,” said Dave Roederer, McCain’s Iowa campaign state chairman.

I think it is safe to say that no other state, besides Obama’s home state of Illinois, knows Obama as as well as Iowa.

The poll shows that Iowans believe Obama is qualified to be president. 65% of Iowans think Obama is qualified to be president compared to 63% for McCain. 55% of Iowans think Joe Biden is qualified, while just 37% think Sarah Palin is qualified.

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The Register’s David Yepsen thought John McCain won Friday night’s presidential debate.

It was one of the most substantive debates in recent presidential campaign history, and John McCain won it.

The Arizona senator was cool, informed and forceful in Friday’s first presidential debate of the general election campaign.

He repeatedly put Barack Obama on the defensive throughout the 90-minute session. Obama did little to assure voters that he is experienced enough to handle foreign and defense policy. That was his No. 1 task Friday night, and he failed.

Makes me wonder if Yepsen was watching the debate from Sporer’s basement.

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Fox News did a focus group of undecided voters for Friday’s debate and they said Obama won the debate.

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Obama’s new ad about McCain using the word middle class zero times during last night’s debate…

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Video of Obama’s press conference yesterday talking about the economic bailout where Obama emphasized the bailout is not a welfare program for CEOs.

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Obama and Biden have been hitting McCain really hard on the economy. Here’s Obama on Saturday at an event in Florida…

I can’t wait to see Obama go head-to-head with McCain in Friday night’s debate.

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The Big Ten Battleground State poll released last week that showed Obama and McCain tied at 44.8% in Iowa seems to be an outlier after 2 recent polls show Obama with a double digit lead and above 50% in each poll.

On Friday, Survey USA released a poll showing Obama beating McCain 54% to 43%.

Among women, Obama leads by 20 points; among men, Obama and McCain tie.
Among voters younger than Barack Obama, Obama leads by 15. Among voters older than John McCain, Obama leads by 9. Among voters who are in-between the two candidates’ ages, Obama leads by 7.

Among white voters — 95% of Iowa’s likely voters — Obama leads by 8 points.
11% of Republicans cross over to vote for Obama; 8% of Democrats cross over to vote for McCain; Independents break for Obama by 9 points.

John McCain leads among Republicans, conservatives, those who attend church regularly, pro-life voters, those focused on terrorism, among the 16% of likely voters who say they may yet change their mind, and in Southwest Iowa. Obama is slightly ahead in Northwest Iowa and leads by double digits in the northeast and southeast portions of the state.

Today, the Quad City Times released results from a Research 2000 poll that shows Obama ahead 53% to 39% over McCain. The poll found that the selection of Sarah Palin as McCain’s VP had little effect in the poll.

McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, which swung the spotlight back to the GOP candidate, didn’t make a large share of voters more likely to support McCain, the Research 2000 survey showed.

Of those polled, 61 percent said the Palin pick had no effect on their decision, and 22 percent said it made them more likely to vote for McCain.

These polls and the Des Moines Register poll released on September 14th, where Obama was winning 52% to 40%, show that Obama is in control in Iowa. McCain’s negative campaign isn’t working in Iowa because Iowans know who Obama really is after having the chance to meet him leading up to the caucuses.

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