Another poll shows dead heat in North Dakota
Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 3:40 pm
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A fresh North Dakota poll released Thursday shows Barack Obama leading John McCain by 3 points, 44 percent to 41 percent, within the poll’s 4.4 percent margin of error. A poll released Monday by The Forum newspaper had Obama and McCain in a statistical dead heat, Obama at 45 percent and McCain at 43 percent.
North Dakota was a tied race early this summer until McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate skewed the polls decidedly toward McCain. With two polls now showing a tied race, the Palin bump may be fading in the historically Republican-voting state, which has not gone for a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide win against Barry Goldwater in 1964.
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Comment posted October 16, 2008 @ 9:01 pm
ND even being close two weeks before the election shows how much trouble McCain is in this year. In 2004 Bush won the state by 27 points 63% to 36%.
Last poll from SD was in late Sept and had McCain up 16 pts. I’m betting the gap has closed up considerable there also.
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