This is great news (even if it isn't reflective of the the outcome). This plays to Obama's strengths in terms of organization and money management. McCain will have to fend off Obama, not only in these expensive states (see Hillary's current debt for reference).

Add NV, NM, CO, VA and NC to the list and it becomes evident that a good ground game is going to make the difference. A nice set of young legs helps too.

Doh! Still it's a loooooong time until November, but it brought me a smile over my coffee this morning.

Gosh!

You me an Obama can WIN the big swing states? What happened to all those Regan democrat problems?! :(

these new sets of polls with make msm heads explode everywhere today since the sky was falling last week with suburban white women. loll

pat buchannan will be obsolete aftera ll!!!

I told you to not make a big deal out of his poor Florida numbers because I knew as soon as he was able to campaign there and put the primary behind him he'd take off, and he has.

Ready for a tsunami in November? ;)

If you look at the poll's internals, you can see big problems for Obama... There are always problems for Obama. He could win 49 states and the pundits would point to his Utah problem.

BOOM!
I love it. Let's hope he can hold on to it or maybe even build it.

I can bet any amount that the MSM wont even mention these polls. it goes against everything they have been saying. I am going to watch MSNBC and the Situation Room later today to see if they mention it.

After the NC and IN primary i made up my mind that i will not put one ounce of credence into what these pundits have to say. They are simply guessing.

Florida!!!! I'm shocked. If Obama wins Florida, it's game, set, match.

not only must obama win florida and ohio, he must also win kentucky and west virginia. he must show his problems with working class whites are in the past. i am not sure he can do this.

Okay, that was a comment to middlenamesareseriousbusiness above???

did obama promise the retirees he would nuke iran? he must of.

Given that this is a June poll, BUT:

I never felt Florida was out of reach - while I don't live there now, I was born there and have family stretching from the conservative north to to the Miami/Lauderdale area.

My south Fla relatives were Hillary supporters who were always willing to vote for whomever was the Democratic nominee. But the real surprise was my very conservative, white, 40-something female, Baptist cousin who wrote me early this year to ask my opinion about Obama, whom she voted for in the "primary" and will vote for in November.

And yes, Obama needs to hit hard on the offshore drilling issue as well as preservation of the Everglades. I believe McCain voted against this funding, mistakenly saying he did so because it was contained in an omnibus spending bill. I don't think this is accurate.

Starting with the fundraisers, you'll see everyone coalescing faster if this continues. This could turn into a avalanche.

"I believe McCain voted against this funding, mistakenly saying he did so because it was contained in an omnibus spending bill. I don't think this is accurate."

My guess, the Republican whip gave a thumbs down to the bill so the renegade maverick voted nay.

This is amazing. Does not reflect well on Hillary, but this isn't a Greg Sargent post, so I won't "go there."

Threatening to destroy Florida's coastline and tourism trade by allowing offshore oil drilling sure won't do much for him there.

McCain also received 2 million dollars from energy companies yesterday for taking that position.

So is that who America wants? Someone who panders to energy companies, takes their money, doesn't have a long-term plan, and cannot appreciate America's natural beauty?

I think not. Obama-Feingold 2008!

There was no "ill will." That was made up by Clinton & her sycophants in an attempt to scare supers. Juts like the made up notion that Obama had problems with Latino voters, women voters, Jewish voters, OH & PA's white voters, big state voters, etc.

ALL GE polls show the complete and utter opposite.

The question I have is why were so many in the corp. media (and some here on the blogosphere who came into being to take down conventional wisdom, no propagate it) so willing to suspend disbelief and go with the Clinton flow on these issues when anyone looking at the polls even before the primary was over, knew they couldn't' be compared to anything related to the GE?

Ahem.

The truth is we will get around to pumping both Anwar and off shore eventually. Neither will make a giant difference, but eventually we will drill everywhere.

That said, what we have to do is force the oil companies to show us how they can drill in an environmentally safe way. So far, despite McCain's claim to the contrary, they haven't.

Even though we can and will drill everywhere the ultimate solution is to move away from oil. I think the current bubble is speculation driven. It will burst, but peak oil has happened and gas is never going to be really cheap again. Prices might drop to $2.75-3.00 per gallon, but that is not really cheap. Once they drop, over time they will immediately climb back up and keep climbing.

I am duly impressed. It would be interesting to know why people changed their mind. Did they just get over their silliness (meaning disgruntled Hillary voters) or is perhaps due to the fact that in the last few months McCain has abandoned virtually every maverick position he ever had? It's ironic that he is the GOP's great white hope because he is going to need massive turnout of the base to win now and there is nothing he can say or do that will make that happen. In fact, right now, most of his pandering has been to the security and big-money republicans. But, they are not the ones he needs to turn out—they will vote for him regardless of what he says in public. However, the more he turns right, the more independents develop contempt for him. And Barr has not even been thrown into the mix yet in states where he can really hurt McCain. No money, no real core of supporters, what's a fella to do. LOL.