Throughout the election I have followed the statewide races at Pollster.com, starting my morning by checking their map of the country and electoral counts to see how the election is shaping up. Well, today they have turned Florida, Colorado, and Ohio BLUE! Or light blue, that is, for leaning towards Obama. For weeks there have been approximately ten "tossup" states shown in yellow, including Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, New Hampshire, etc. At times even states like Minnesota and Michigan were too close to call and shown in yellow by Pollster.com. When the polls in a respective state start to clearly trend to one candidate over the other it is turned light blue or light red. This is what happened today with Florida, Colorado, Ohio, and New Hampshire. None of the remaining tossup states have gone Democrat in a very long time: Nevada, Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia, and Missouri.
It is still a little too early for the polls to have picked up any trends and determine if McPalin’s turn to the dark side with their step up in negative adds has had an affect yet, but lets hope these favorable trends for Obama continue. We all know what they say about negative adds. See all that blue below the jump along with how Pollster.com does their numbers.
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