Poll: McCain has slight edge over Obama in Nevada

By Jamie Klatell, Politicker.com Editor

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain is carrying a small lead in Nevada over his Democratic rival Barack Obama, a new poll from Rasmussen finds.

Forty-five percent of the 700 likely voters polled support McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, with 42 percent saying they back Obama, the junior senator from Illinois. McCain's lead is within the polls 4.5-percentage point margin of error.

Obama's support has stayed at 42 percent in three successive monthly polls from Rasmussen. In July, that number put him ahead of McCain's 40 percent, but in June's poll, McCain led with 45 percent.

Nevada is forecasted to be the most competitive of the presidential swing states, according to The Pindell Report. Politicker.com Managing Editor James Pindell describes it as:

"A pure toss-up state, a mix of demographic issues, booming population, foreclosure crisis in the south, moral issues of importance in the north, collectivist unions that matter and Libertarian feelings that matter this is a battleground state in the battleground West."

JAMIE KLATELL is a Politicker.com Editor and can be reached via email at jamie.klatell@politicker.com.

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Comments

I disagree that Sen. McCain

posted by Renato Bermejo

I disagree that Sen. McCain is the culprit of the performance of the Bush Administration. He is not part of the Cabinet. In fact when Vice-Presidency was offered by Bush to McCain the latter refused on the ground of policy differences.
The first who should be blamed is the President himself, next is the Vice-President, then the Cabinet.
Why should Sen. Obama put heavily the blame to a single senator, from among the 99 other members, about the administration of a President?

10/14/08 10:19 am