Purple Strategies: Close races in VA, CO, OH, FL

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The GM numbers could genuinely be helpful to Obama in Ohio, which is why I'm willing to believe that he's maybe a touch further up there than in Virginia.

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Wasn't Purple Strategies completely discredited last time they pulled this?

They're certainly not a 'good' pollster, but this poll doesn't appear to do some of the things that previous ones have done that made them quite so awful.

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Might I remind us all that Virginia and Ohio are doing significantly better, relative to the nadir, than the rest of the country economically?

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CO is certainly a state to watch. The only poll that has shown Obama with a huge lead is PPP. The others show it as being like Virginia. I would also like more Iowa polling....

I don't see any reason to believe that Obama will exactly romp in Colorado on Election Day, but I also don't see any reason to believe that he'll lose, so these kinds of numbers make sense. Iowa's definitely set to be closer but I'm still not convinced that Romney's minimum path to victory runs through there. I think it'll be quite close to the national PV.