Florida and Ohio - two “red” states from 2000 and 2004 have been trending (slowly) away from Barack Obama in recent days, with recent polls in both states showing modest John McCain leads developing (See Florida - here and here; Ohio - here.)  While this is encouraging news for the GOPers, as this map shows, [...]

Polling Update:
GOPNation Average: McCain up by just 1

Our latest battleground poll shows John McCain with his largest electoral vote lead since we began polling, leading Barack Obama 279-259, with the addition of Colorado to the red side of the aisle.  With this change, the map of 2008 is identical to that of 2004, except for [...]

No one really thinks that McCain/Palin will win in the Empire State, but if the Democrats need to put costly money here, they are indeed in trouble.  Of course, another poll shows Virginia in Obama’s camp by four, bad news which would be bad news for the other team.
And in Ohio, McCain has a 4-point [...]

Our latest battleground survey shows the Team McCain has taken back the Buckeye state from the Democrats, putting the current electoral vote count at 278-260, with Barack Obama ahead.  Obama’s count is just 8 better than was is needed to be elected.  In the next few days, the McCain surge in the national tracking polls [...]

With the conventions coming this week and next, and Labor Day not far away, we begin a new feature  called ‘battlegrounds’ where we zero in on the top 10 ’swing states’ and see and report what is happening in each of those states on the ground - day by day, week by week.  Visit battlegrounds [...]