On To The General Election

Now that Barack Obama seems like the likely presidential nominee for the Democratic Party (as if there was any doubt), much of the media has focused on the growing battle between Obama and McCain. In most of his speeches, Obama has attacked McCain for not supporting the New G.I. Bill put forward by Senate colleague (and potential V.P.) Jim Webb of Virginia, the ongoing war in Iraq, and of course, the economy. Obama, to the best of his campaign, has tried to link McCain to Bush, in hopes of trying to make McCain seems like another Bush term if he were elected. McCain, has fired back calling Obama "naive" and "inexperienced". These back and forth attacks have been going on for almost a month now, as the media has begun to focus on these two candidates, rendering Hillary Clinton as just another news story.

In one of my earlier blog post, I noted how Obama could win the general election in a variety of ways. Recently, there have been posts out regarding several key battleground states. Here are some of the states.

From SurveyUSA: http://surveyusa.com/

Iowa (5/21-22)
O: 47
M: 38

Ohio (5/16-18)
O: 48
M: 39

Virginia (5/16-18)
O: 49
M: 42

Pennsylvania (5/16-18)
O: 48
M: 40

As seen by the above polls, Obama will have a somewhat easy time in getting the nomination. If Obama wins all the Kerry states, he can manage to lose Ohio and Florida by winning Iowa, New Mexico, and Colorado, all states in which polling show Obama is currently winning. So far, it looks like the long primary fight is not hurting Obama too much just yet. Obama should do a lot better in polls when Obama finally becomes the clear nominee.