EAST LANSING – With little more than three weeks to go before the November 4 election, the latest Outlook from the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University shows that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is cresting on a potential Electoral College landslide.
The latest study shows that if the election were held now Obama could net as many as 358 electoral votes while Republican presidential candidate John McCain would get just 180 votes. It requires 270 votes to win the presidency.
In addition the study shows that there are just four battleground states: Minnesota, North Carolina and Ohio that are all leaning towards Obama and South Dakota leaning towards McCain.
The Outlook is now updated daily, and earlier this week showed just two states as battleground states.
The study forecasts that as of Friday Obama had 313 electoral votes that could be considered sure and the potential of 45 more from the battleground states. McCain had 177 sure electoral votes and just three that could come from a battleground state.
The study showed that West Virginia had switched to favoring Obama after favoring McCain throughout the election and that Missouri now favored McCain after leaning towards Obama through most the election.
In terms of public opinion, Obama was favored by 48.5 percent of the voters while McCain was favored by 43.3 percent with the remaining 8.2 percent undecided.
In Michigan, the consensus of the polls reviewed showed Obama leading McCain by 56 percent to 40 percent with just 4 percent undecided. Last week, McCain pulled most his campaign operation out of Michigan.
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