WA: Public Policy Polling: Obama to win Washington again

[Tender Branson]

New Poll: Washington President by Public Policy Polling on 2012-02-21

Summary: D: 53%, R: 38%, U: 9%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

[Miles]

Cantwell will probably be running 3 or 4 points ahead of Obama when they release the Senate numbers.

[Lief 🗽]

Really amazing how 2000/2004 dem swing states are now by and large safe Obama.

[memphis]

Really amazing how 2000/2004 dem swing states are now by and large safe Obama.

Not all that amazing. 2000 and 2004 featured a very tight race in the Electoral College. If current numbers hold, Obama's looking to run away with this. If you put the states in order from strongest Dem to strongest GOP, the order would still be similar.  Was not the case at all a few decades ago.

[Reds4]

You could argue that these numbers aren't all that amazing for Obama since he only leads Santorum by 12 here. Kerry won the state by 7.2% over Bush in 2004 and Obama won by more than 17% in 2008. I don't think Washington was ever a swing state anytime recently. Some of the other states (Wisconsin, New Mexico, Virginia) are the ones that are really helping Obama's chances at this point in the electoral college