SUSA -- Minnesota: Obama 49 McCain 47.

[DCBob]

One Month, Two Conventions, and Two VP Picks Later, Presidential Race Unchanged in Minnesota: In an election for President of the United States in Minnesota today, 09/12/08, 53 days to Election Day, Barack Obama and John McCain finish effectively even, according to this exclusive SurveyUSA poll conducted for KSTP-TV in Minneapolis, WDIO-TV in Duluth, KAAL-TV in Rochester, and KSAX-TV in Alexandria. Today, it's Obama 49%, McCain 47%, within the survey's 3.7 percentage point margin of sampling error. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released one month ago, Obama and McCain are each up two points overall. Little has changed, and what changes have occurred appear to have offset one another.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=987c56ab-af73-49dc-8e45-f7ccbcfe7411
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So after McCain's big "Palin peak" nothing has changed in MN. It was blue, is still blue and will remain blue.

[flamingdem]

1. Good. Minnesota goes for Obama

It's probably a bigger margin.

[saltpoint]

2. Agree. I'm hunching the only Great Lakes State McCain has a chance in

is Indiana, and I'd like to temper that by saying Obama is aggressively competing for the state and McCain is not as strong there as Bush was in 00 and 04.

There is a chance for an all-blue Great Lakes map light-up on Nov. 4th.

[DCBob]

3. Wouldn't that be great! It is possible.

Ohio will also be challenge since the Repubs are trying all their best dirty tricks to steal it.

[saltpoint]

4. Yes. Ohio is never an in-the-bag state for us. I remember how close

the Ford-Carter race was there.

Not to mention the 2004 election.

Gore gave up on Ohio to concentrate money and effort in other states and still only lost it by 3.4% to Dubya. So I feel as if we are always competitive there, but it would be sensational to carry it.

I'm hungry to carry Ohio. I want it lit up blue on that tv screen early in the evening on Nov. 4th!

[DCBob]

5. I think Biden and the Clintons will be hitting Ohio hard.

Some of the comments from Strickland a few weeks back were not helpful... hopefully he will stay on message the rest of the way.

[saltpoint]

7. I hope so, too. Ted's a good man. We need him front-and-center.

And I hope the Democratic Sec. of State in Ohio there has PLENTY of voting machines in place up in Cuyahoga County.

[brazos121200]

6. If I was managing Obama's campaign, I would make Ohio

priority #1. If Obama can carry Ohio, he will win, end of story. The upper midwest is always the key to winning the Presidential elections, and Ohio is the key to the midwest. The only Democrats to win a presidential election since 1960 have won Ohio. Those who lost Ohio, lost the election, no exdeptions. Right now, Obama is behind by only about 2 1/2 percentage points in Ohio, and with an aggressive campaign there, he could win.

[saltpoint]

8. Yep. And if the Obama push to victory in Ohio is strong and true, we

might even luck out and dump Mean Jean Schmidt and Steve Chabot in their respective districts as well.

Which would be a damned fine thing.