There is new polling out in Georgia and Colorado, each of which shows the race tightening.
Rasmussen
conducted the Colorado poll, which has Barack Obama with a 43-41 lead.
That 2-point advantage is down from 6 points a month ago. But in
Georgia, Insider Advantage
has that state tightening to a single point; John McCain leads 44-43,
with 6 points going to Bob Barr. Insider Advantage's prior poll in
Georgia, which also included Barr in the match-ups, had John McCain
ahead by 10.
Earlier this week, I ripped on the Obama campaign
for designating Georgia as a swing state. No previous polling had shown
Obama within single digits there -- a Rasmussen poll conducted the day
after the primaries ended had it McCain +10. I doubt that the state is
truly within the margin of error right now. But it is certainly close
enough -- with the known unknowns of the Barr vote and African-American
turnout -- to be included in Obama's ad buy,
as the candidate is doing. This may also be a reminder that you can
often infer something about a campaign's internal polling in a state
before the public data catches up. The McCain camp, for their part, seems as pleased as a peach:
The McCain campaign on Thursday said they welcome Obama's expenditure.he's gotten an especially large bounce out of Appalachia
"We're obviously overjoyed when Barack Obama spends money in a state that we are very, very confident that John McCain will carry in November," McCain spokesman Jeff Sadosky said.
--Nate Silver