

But but but, Ohio is full of white working class, blue collar, beer drinking, lunchpail toting, bowling shoe wearing people that Obama can't win. Isn't it? Oh, mourn the death of conventional wisdom that you see here.







A new Public Policy Polling survey finds Sen. Barack Obama begins the general election in Ohio with a double digit lead over John McCain, 50% to 39%.



It's a major improvement from most recent previous Ohio poll, taken at the height of the Jeremiah Wright controversy in March, which showed Obama trailing McCain 49% to 41%.



Bottom line: "The key difference for Obama is that he's got his party behind him to a much greater extent than he did then."