President Obama traveled to Ohio on Wednesday for yet another stop in the crucial swing state — and he arrived to good news.
He has opened up leads in three of the most important prizes on the electoral map, including the Buckeye State, according to an eyebrow-raising new poll.
The President now has a 6-point lead over Mitt Romney in both Ohio and Florida, and is up a surprising 11 points in Pennsylvania, according to a new Quinnipiac/CBS/New York Times survey.
The trio of states will perhaps be the most hotly contested of the campaign — and if Obama sweeps them, victory in November is all but assured.
No candidate since John F. Kennedy in 1960 has captured the White House without winning at least two of those three states.
“The President is running better in the key swing states than he is nationally,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
“Part of the reason may be that the unemployment rate in Ohio is well below the national average,” said Brown. “In Florida, it has been dropping over the past year, while nationally that has not been the case.”
Other recent polls suggest that Obama’s attack ads targeting Romney’s time running Bain Capital have also resonated in several swing states.
Obama’s lead in Pennsylvania — despite worries that the state’s new restrictive voter ID law may suppress Democratic turnout — could be large enough that the state may not be a battleground after all.
For the first time in months, neither campaign is currently advertising in the Keystone State — a possible sign that both sides believe an Obama win there is a foregone conclusion.
The President is taking nothing for granted in neighboring Ohio, however, where Wednesday he made his 24th visit since taking office.
“There’s not an inch of Ohio that the President does not love to visit,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joked Tuesday. “It’s a great state.”
He ripped Romney’s tax plan, which, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, would raise taxes an average of $500 for 95% of Americans while giving millionaires an $87,000 cut.
“Here’s the thing – he’s not asking you to contribute more to pay down the deficit, or to invest in our kids’ education,” Obama said during a stop in Mansfield. “He’s asking you to pay more so that people like him can get a tax cut.”
He has opened up leads in three of the most important prizes on the electoral map, including the Buckeye State, according to an eyebrow-raising new poll.
The President now has a 6-point lead over Mitt Romney in both Ohio and Florida, and is up a surprising 11 points in Pennsylvania, according to a new Quinnipiac/CBS/New York Times survey.
The trio of states will perhaps be the most hotly contested of the campaign — and if Obama sweeps them, victory in November is all but assured.
No candidate since John F. Kennedy in 1960 has captured the White House without winning at least two of those three states.
“The President is running better in the key swing states than he is nationally,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
“Part of the reason may be that the unemployment rate in Ohio is well below the national average,” said Brown. “In Florida, it has been dropping over the past year, while nationally that has not been the case.”
Other recent polls suggest that Obama’s attack ads targeting Romney’s time running Bain Capital have also resonated in several swing states.
Obama’s lead in Pennsylvania — despite worries that the state’s new restrictive voter ID law may suppress Democratic turnout — could be large enough that the state may not be a battleground after all.
For the first time in months, neither campaign is currently advertising in the Keystone State — a possible sign that both sides believe an Obama win there is a foregone conclusion.
The President is taking nothing for granted in neighboring Ohio, however, where Wednesday he made his 24th visit since taking office.
“There’s not an inch of Ohio that the President does not love to visit,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joked Tuesday. “It’s a great state.”
He ripped Romney’s tax plan, which, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, would raise taxes an average of $500 for 95% of Americans while giving millionaires an $87,000 cut.
“Here’s the thing – he’s not asking you to contribute more to pay down the deficit, or to invest in our kids’ education,” Obama said during a stop in Mansfield. “He’s asking you to pay more so that people like him can get a tax cut.”
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