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Polls: Ohio Slipping Away From McCain

A pair of polls released today indicate Sen. John McCain’s prospects for victory in the absolutely must-win state of Ohio may be growing dimmer.

The results of Quinnipiac University’s newest battleground surveys show McCain trailing Sen. Barack Obama by a whopping 14-percentage points in the Buckeye State, by a margin of 52 percent to 38 percent. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percent. In the same survey earlier this month, Obama led by seven percentage points.

The Big 10 Battleground Poll — a survey of the Rust Belt and Midwestern states represented in the NCAA’s Big 10 Conference directed by pollsters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — found McCain trails by 12 percentage points in Ohio, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percent.

http://washingtonindependent.com/14439/ohio-slipping-away-from-mccain