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Not much “Berlin bounce” for Obama, poll says
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got no “Berlin Bounce” in the Buckeye State. Or in the Sunshine State. Or in the Keystone State, according to the latest polling in the crucial election swing states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania.
In fact, in the newest surveys by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, Obama leads Republican John McCain in all three states, but McCain has climbed into a virtual tie in Ohio and Florida and has nearly halved the presumptive Democratic nominee’s lead in Pennsylvania, despite the glowing accounts of Obama’s recent trip abroad.
“Senator McCain closed the gap at a time when Senator Obama was making those headlines,” Clay Richards, assistant director at the Connecticut based polling institute, told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor newspaper.
“It appears the trip did not help him (Obama),” added Peter Brown, a longtime political analyst and fellow assistant director at Quinnipiac.
Brown suggested the shrinkage in Obama’s lead was largely due to the growing concern of voters over the economy and the ability of McCain’s campaign to equate the economy to higher energy prices.
McCain is having some success in trying to “change the dialogue” over the economy by focusing voter attention on high gasoline prices and promoting offshore drilling while Obama has focused on health care and the real estate crisis, “the issues which favor him,” he added.
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