John McCain faces double-digit deficits in eight Midwest states, including Minnesota, with only 12 days to make up the difference, a poll released Thursday showed.
Barack Obama has substantial leads in the eight states that are home to universities in the Big Ten Conference, according to a poll sponsored by those universities. The states include three carried by Republican President Bush in 2004 and crucial in this election – Ohio, Indiana and Iowa.
Quoted: “With the fundamental factors so to their advantage, this election was always about Barack Obama and the Democrats reaching a threshold level of credibility with voters,” said Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and co-director of the poll. “It appears Obama has and this race has popped nationally and here in the Big Ten.”