Obama leaps ahead of McCain
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has opened up a commanding lead in Minnesota over 
Republican John McCain, according to a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll.
The poll, conducted last week among 1,084 likely voters, found that 55 percent support Obama, while 37 percent back McCain.
That’s a huge difference from the last Minnesota Poll, conducted in September, which showed the race dead even, with each candidate backed by 45 percent of likely voters. The new poll shows that Obama’s surge in the state can be attributed to voters’ belief in his ability to deal with the nation’s worsening economy, his performance in the first presidential debate and an increase in the number of Minnesotans who call themselves Democrats.
Obama appears comfortably ahead among men, women, and voters of all ages and educational attainment.
The poll’s findings come at a time when polls in several other battleground states and nationally are showing a sudden and significant shift to Obama. Gallup’s daily national tracking poll released Friday showed Obama leading McCain by 7 percentage points.
Statewide polls conducted last week show Obama overtaking McCain in such key battleground states as Ohio, Virginia and Florida. In Florida, for example, the last four polls have shown Obama with leads of between three and eight percentage points; in the weeks prior, Obama trailed by as many as 10 points.
In Minnesota, for decades the most reliably Democratic state in presidential elections, a CNN/Time poll conducted last weekend showed Obama ahead, 54 percent to 43 percent. However, a Survey USA poll conducted last week showed McCain ahead among the state’s likely voters, 47 percent to 46 percent.
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