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Pennsylvania: McCain vs. Obama

Polling Data

PollDateSampleMcCain (R)Obama (D)Spread
RCP Average04/23 - 05/06--40.345.3Obama +5.0
Susquehanna05/01 - 05/06800 LV3946Obama +7.0
Quinnipiac04/23 - 04/291494 RV3847Obama +9.0
Rasmussen04/24 - 04/24500 LV4443McCain +1.0

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Recent Commentary & News Stories

- Obama Can't Ignore What Happened in WV - Maureen Dowd, NY Times

- Why Doesn't Hillary Concede? - Thomas Edsall, Huffington Post

- The Obama Gamble - Ken Blackwell, New York Sun

- GOP Troubles: A Mississippi Microcosm? - Richard Cohen, National Journal

- Race and the 2008 Election - Tony Blankley, Washington Times

See All Pennsylvania: McCain vs. Obama Commentary & News Stories

Polling Data

PollDateSampleMcCain (R)Obama (D)Spread
RCP Average04/23 - 05/06--40.345.3Obama +5.0
Susquehanna05/01 - 05/06800 LV3946Obama +7.0
Quinnipiac04/23 - 04/291494 RV3847Obama +9.0
Rasmussen04/24 - 04/24500 LV4443McCain +1.0
Strategic Vision (R)04/11 - 04/131200 LV4939McCain +10.0
Rasmussen04/09 - 04/09500 LV3947Obama +8.0
Temple Univ.03/27 - 04/091175 RV4047Obama +7.0
Strategic Vision (R)03/28 - 03/311200 LV4742McCain +5.0
Quinnipiac03/24 - 03/313484 RV3943Obama +4.0
Rasmussen03/10 - 03/10500 LV4443McCain +1.0
Susquehanna03/05 - 03/10700 RV4541McCain +4.0
Strategic Vision (R)03/07 - 03/091,200 LV4744McCain +3.0
SurveyUSA02/26 - 02/28608 RV4742McCain +5.0
Quinnipiac02/21 - 02/251872 RV4042Obama +2.0
Franklin & Marshall02/13 - 02/18640 RV4443McCain +1.0
Morning Call02/09 - 02/17588 RV4239McCain +3.0
Rasmussen02/14 - 02/14500 LV3949Obama +10.0
Quinnipiac02/06 - 02/121419 LV4142Obama +1.0
Quinnipiac10/01 - 10/08878 RV4145Obama +4.0
Keystone Poll08/24 - 09/02232 RV4247Obama +5.0
Quinnipiac08/14 - 08/201160 RV4043Obama +3.0
Keystone Poll05/29 - 06/07RV 4337McCain +6.0
Morning Call05/15 - 05/21416 RV3936McCain +3.0
Keystone Poll02/19 - 02/25540 RV4337McCain +6.0

All Commentary & News Stories

- Obama Can't Ignore What Happened in WV - Maureen Dowd, NY Times

- Why Doesn't Hillary Concede? - Thomas Edsall, Huffington Post

- The Obama Gamble - Ken Blackwell, New York Sun

- GOP Troubles: A Mississippi Microcosm? - Richard Cohen, National Journal

- Race and the 2008 Election - Tony Blankley, Washington Times

- McCain Will Use 'America' as Wedge Issue - Harold Meyerson, Wash Post

- Government Stifles Wisdom of Crowds - John Stossel, RealClearPolitcs

- Truth Serum on the Trail - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek

- The West Virginia Pasting - John Dickerson, Slate

- In Britain, the Economy, Stupid - Steven Malanga, RealClearMarkets

- Why Carly Fiorina is So Important to McCain - Daniel Gross, Newsweek

- Dems Grab Another GOP Seat - John Nichols, The Nation

- Playing the Racism Card - Tom Bethell, The American Spectator

- Hillary Wants to Say, 'I Told You So' - David Corn, Mother Jones

- Why GOP's Mississippi House Loss Resonates - Tom Curry, MSNBC

- Our Ingrained Racism - Paul Campos, Rocky Mountain News

- Hillary is Destroying the Dems? Hardly - Jon Gurwitz, SA Express-News

- McCain's Gift to the Green Movement - Eric Pooley, Time

- The Irony of McCain's Global Warming Plan - Holman Jenkins, WSJ

- Hillary Wins Big - Does Anybody Care? - Roger Simon, The Politico

- Clinton Win Highlights Party Divide - Byron York, National Review Online

- She Won't Go Easy - Camille Paglia, Salon

- Teddy Stuck Around in '80, Why Shouldn't Hillary? - Daniel Cirucci, PDN

- Obama Must Learn How to Get Bubba - Kathleen Parker, RealClearPolitics

- No Veep Slot For Hillary - Dick Morris, The Hill

- The Black Case for Obama-Skepticism - Cinque Henderson, New Republic

- GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi - Reid Wilson, RealClearPolitics

- McCain Can Win Hispanic Support - Ruben Navarrette, SJ Mercury-News

- McCain's Supreme Wrongheadedness - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe

- Can Obama Really Reshape US Foreign Policy? - Jonathan Steele, Guardian

- McCain Has the Right Approach on Judges - New York Post

- Little Gain In Big Win For Clinton - Vaughn Ververs, CBS News

- For WV, Obama Acts the Diffident Debutante - Maureen Dowd, NY Times

- Where Clinton, Obama Can Go From Here - Peter Keating, New Republic

- The Silver Lining in Obama's Slog - Gerald Seib, Wall Street Journal

- Republican Panic in Mississippi - Dick Polman, Philadelphia Inquirer

- Road To Hell Is Paved With Superdelegates - Patrick James, Forbes

- Obamacans Pile on Clinton at Own Peril - Froma Harrop, Providence Jrnl

- Hillary Should Step Aside, Gracefully - Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star

- Obama's Refusal to Accept Blame - Jake Tapper, ABC News

- The Obama Rules - Rich Lowry, New York Post

- Primary Battle Has Helped, Hurt Clinton - E. J. Dionne, Washington Post

- Advice for Obama: Get Specific - Newt Gingrich, Newsweek

- A Proposal For Democratic Unity - George McGovern, New York Times

- Is Obama Using Bush's Playbook? - Reed Galen, RealClearPolitics

- Another Epic West Virginia Battle - Sandy Grady, USA Today

- Will Whites Vote for Obama? - John Judis, The New Republic

- Clinton Campaign Brought Sexism Out of Hiding - Marie Cocco, RCP

- The Pot Holes on the High Road - Wesley Pruden, Washington Times

- For McCain, Distance from Bush is Key - Roger Simon, The Politico

- The Facebook Election - Carl Cannon, Reader's Digest

- McCain's Climate 'Market' - Wall Street Journal

- Climate Change in Washington - Washington Post

- Clinton Running Hard in Last Laps - Patrick Healy, New York Times

- Racism Alarms Obama Backers - Kevin Merida, Washington Post

- The Cult of the Presidency - Gene Healy, Reason

- Hillary Enters Death-with-Dignity Phase - Walter Shapiro, Salon

- How to Talk About White People - J. Hartigan, Austin American-Statesman

- NYT: Running Interference for Obama - John Hinderaker, Power Line

- Obama on Zionism and Hamas - Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic

- What is Obama's Stance on Israel? - Philip Klein, The American Spectator

- Dems to Clinton: Don't Say Anything to Hurt Us - Jake Tapper, ABC News

- What a President Should Know - Lawrence Lindsey, Weekly Standard

- In Hope of a Principled Campaign - Clive Crook, Financial Times

- Hillary's Game Ain't Over - Jonathan Alter, Newsweek

- Newsweek Gushes for Obama - Peter Wehner, Contentions

- Over Not Out - Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker

- Dems Wrong on Cutting Mexican Anti-Drug Aid - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald

- The Muslim World Won't Welcome Obama - Edward Luttwak, New York Times

- Is Indiana Really Disfranchising Elderly Nuns? - John Fund, Wall St. Journal

- A Dignity Promotion For Hillary Clinton - Jennifer Rubin, Contentions

- Obama and the Values Question Mark - Douglas Schoen, Wall St. Journal

- Questions for John McCain - George Will, Newsweek

- Impeachment Explains the Clinton Campaign - Michael Crowley, TNR

- Could Obama Be Another Dukakis? - Susan Estrich, FOX News

- The Problem with the 'Elitist' Tag - Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News

- Jeremiah Wright's 'Trumpet' - Stanley Kurtz, Weekly Standard

- McCain's 7 Steps to Beating Obama - Michael Scherer, Time

- McCain, Huckabee & Evangelicals - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times

- Obama's Problems with Jewish Voters - Washington Times

- The Next Vice President - Chicago Tribune

- A Year Unlike Any Other - Frank Rich, New York Times

- This Race Could Be a Wild One - David Yepsen, Des Moines Register

- Hoping to Hold On in Mississippi - George Will, Houston Chronicle

- Republicans Have Reason to be Gloomy - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard

- Unity Ticket Brings More Minuses Than Pluses - Michael Tomasky, TNR

- Can Democrats Learn to Talk About Race? - Joan Walsh, Salon

- The Advantages of Sainthood - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online

- Is John McCain Trying to Lose Michigan? - Susan Demas, RealClearPolitics

- GOP Still Hasn't Learned Its Lesson - Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

- Hillary's Still In, but the Media Moves On - Howard Kurtz, Washington Post

- What Does Clinton Want? - Katharine Seelye, New York Times

- Congress Gears Up for a Left Turn in 2009 - Brian Friel, National Journal

- How Hillary Got Down with the Boys - Susan Faludi, New York Times

- Obama Will Get Blue-Collars in November - Robert Robb, AZ Republic

- Painful Period for Clinton Campaign - Tim Russert, MSNBC

- The GOP's '08 Election Anxiety - Terence Samuel, American Prospect

- What Keeps Hillary Going? - Ron Elving, NPR

- Will Obama Squander the Dems' Lead? - Paul Krugman, New York Times

- Desperate Clinton is Danger to Dems - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post