At the outset of a fierce campaign debate over jobs and taxes, Barack Obama returns today to Wisconsin, a blue-collar swing state that gave him one of his broadest victories in the Democratic primaries and where the political climate now tilts markedly in his favor, according to a new poll.
Likely voters in Wisconsin are overwhelmingly sour about President Bush, the Iraq war and where the country is headed, according to the poll, conducted Sunday to Tuesday by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s political science department and Wispolitics.com.