McCain Tanking in Battlegrounds

Quinnipiac has released new polling data for Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and it shows that John McCain has quite away to go if he wants to be president of the United States. Obama did himself quite well during the debates in the places where it counts:

Florida before the Debate

Obama 49
McCain 43

Florida after the Debate

Obama 51
McCain 43


Ohio before the Debate

Obama 49
McCain 42

Ohio after the Debate

Obama 50
McCain 42


Pennsylvania before the Debate

Obama 49 - McCain 43

Pennsylvania after the Debate

Obama 54
McCain 39

That's right, according to Quinnipiac, Obama is now over 50 percent in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Notes the pollster:

No one has been elected President since 1960 without taking two of these three largest swing states in the Electoral College.