If you want a shock poll, a poll that confirms your suspicions and dreams that Obama is on his way to victory, a poll that reinforces the trends, then this is a SHOCK POLL for you....
Bend over Drudge, this one will hurt...
After trailing by 10 points in U.S. rural areas, Democrat Barack Obama is neck-and-neck with Republican John McCain among rural voters in 13 swing states, a potentially key group for winning the White House, according to a poll released on Thursday.
Obama was supported by 46 percent and McCain by 45 percent of 841 likely voters surveyed from October 5-21, as U.S. financial turmoil deepened, according to the poll commissioned by the nonpartisan Center for Rural Strategies in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
This poll represents a seismic shift in the electorate, one which is heart warming and hope instilling... this is a poll that leaves my jaw on the ground. If I had to say one place was safe for McCain, I'd of said it was Rural America.
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