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Poll: Obama-Biden leads McCain-Palin in Minnesota, Iowa

Last update: September 3, 2008 - 4:15 PM

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A new poll shows the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden with a healthy lead over John McCain and Sarah Palin in the battleground states of Minnesota and Iowa.

In Minnesota, the Democrats are ahead 53 percent to 41 percent; in Iowa, they’re ahead 55 percent to 40 percent.

The poll, conducted Sunday through Tuesday for Time Magazine and CNN, is the first to include the running mates of both presidential tickets. It has a margin of sampling error of 3.5 percentage points.

Both campaigns have targeted the two states as winnable in November, especially because the winning margins in both have been narrow during the past two election cycles. In Minnesota, McCain’s strategists believe he can be competitive, even though the state last voted for a Republican presidential candidate in 1972.

In the even more crucial battleground state of Ohio, the poll shows the race is essentially a tossup, with Obama ahead 47 percent to 45 percent — a statistical dead heat.

—  Bob von Sternberg

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