I haven't seen this mentioned, but I just saw this in the Indianapolis Star, IndyStar.Com, Obama 47 to McCain's 44, with a margin of error of 4 points.
600 likely voters were polled between Sunday and Tuesday, by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, Iowa. Here's a quote from the story:
Jonathan Swain, Obama's Indiana spokesman, said the poll supports the campaign's belief that Obama can turn this historically red state blue for the first time in 44 years.
"This just reinforces what we felt all along: that Indiana is a battleground state that is going to play a key role in who the next president is," Swain said. "Hoosiers are seeing a presidential candidate do what they haven't seen in most of their lifetimes, and that's actively campaign here and actually compete here."
Obama takes 94% of the vote of African Americans and as a Hoosier woman, I particularly enjoyed this:
Elsewhere, the poll found McCain has a 48 percent to 41 percent lead among men, but his selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate has not delivered an advantage among women. Of likely voters, Obama wins with Hoosier women by a margin of 51 percent to 42 percent.
Woo-hoo!! Let's turn Indiana blue!
Update (12:01 am EDT): Thanks -- my first recommended diary :-)
Update (7am EDT): Here's the link to the front page of the IndyStar, with a little more information. There's a link to some comments by the pollster Ann Selzer, e.g.
In past Indiana elections, Selzer said, black and young Hoosiers have not turned out to vote at a rate that reflects their share of the population.
But this year, she said, the Barack Obama campaign appears to have energized those "hidden voters," making it critical that their opinions be included in polling. That's exactly what Selzer's firm did in conducting a new Indianapolis Star-WTHR (Channel 13) poll that shows Obama with a narrow lead over John McCain in Indiana.