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With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, Barack Obama has held or increased his lead in four key states won by President Bush in 2004 - Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia - while he has lost ground in West Virginia, according to the latest series of TIME/CNN battleground-state polls conducted by Opinion Research Corp. The polls suggest that the McCain campaign's recent attempts to link the Democratic nominee to former domestic terrorist William Ayers and the liberal organizing group ACORN (which the GOP accuses of perpetrating voter fraud) are not resonating with most voters...
Obama gained the most ground in North Carolina, where he now leads John McCain among likely voters by 51% to 47%, up 4 percentage points from earlier this month, when a similar poll showed the two tied at 49%. In Nevada, Obama expanded his lead to 51% to McCain's 46%, up 1 percentage point from September. Similarly, in the crucial swing state of Ohio, Obama leads the Arizona Senator by a 50% to 46% margin, an increase of 1 percentage point from his lead earlier this month. In Virginia, a state that increasingly looks to be solidly in Obama...
...races in Ohio, North Carolina and Nevada - while showing Obama trending up - remain inside or very close to the margins of error for those states. In Virginia, Obama's lead is far outside the margin of error, and McCain's lead in West Virginia is also solid. The polls of Nevada and Ohio have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, while those of North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia have margins of error of plus or minus 4 points...
...polls were conducted over the phone from Oct. 19-21. In Nevada, 911 registered voters and 700 likely voters were polled. In North Carolina, 940 registered voters and 644 likely voters were surveyed. Pollsters in Ohio spoke to 938 registered voters and 737 likely voters. In Virginia, 927 registered voters and 647 likely voters were polled. And in West Virginia, 893 registered and 674 likely voters were polled...
...harsh reality: plenty of homeowners are never going to be able to pay for their houses, no matter how generous the terms, because someone - the homeowner, the mortgage broker - lied about or simply ignored income and assets. Cena Valladolid, chief operating officer for Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Southern Nevada, says more than half of the homeowners who seek help from her nonprofit are living in houses they never had a realistic shot of affording. The best advice she can offer in the depressed Las Vegas real estate market is to ask the lender to allow a short sale...