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October 24, 2008

Polls: Obama Ahead in Battlegrounds
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On the campaign trail, a series of new polls show an increasing lead for
Senator Barack Obama over Senator John Mc Cain. Several polls show Obama
ahead in key battleground states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Florida. Nate Silver of the polling website Five Thirty Eight.com says
Mc Cain’s chance of winning the election has dwindled down to 3.7
percent, down from 6.5 percent. On Thursday, Obama campaigned in
Indiana.

Sen. Barack Obama: “More tax cuts for jobs outsourcing, that’s what
Senator Mc Cain proposed as his answer to outsourcing. He said that’s,
quote, ‘simple fundamental economics.’ Well, Indiana, my opponent may
call that ‘fundamental economics,’ but we know that’s just another name
for Wall Street first, Main Street last. That’s the kind of economic
philosophy we’ve had for the past eight years. And that’s fundamentally
wrong.”

Mc Cain was in Florida, where he continued to invoke “Joe the Plumber”
to portray Obama as a “tax and spend” Democrat.

Sen. John Mc Cain: “He believes in redistributing the wealth, not in
policies that grow our economy and create jobs and opportunities for all
Americans. Senator Obama is more interested in controlling who gets your
piece of the pie than he is in growing the pie. You know, whether it’s
Joe the plumber in Ohio or Joe over here—thank you, Joe, Joe, thank you;
there’s Joes all over here, small business owners I met with this
morning here in Florida—we shouldn’t be taxing our small businesses
more, as Senator Obama wants to do.”



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