Obama approval rating in some state polls conducted month of August...

[WI_DEM]

Maryland 56/44 (RAS)+12
New Jersey 52/36 (Rutgers) or 47/47 (Quinnipiac)= +15 or 0
Connecticut 55/44 (RAS)+11
Maine 54/46 (RAS)+8
Illinois 54/46 (RAS) or 49/46 (PPP)+8 or +3
Florida 47/47 (Quinnipiac)0
Minnesota 47/52 (RAS) -5
Colorado 47/52 (RAS) -5
Ohio 45/54 (RAS) -9
Nevada 45/55 (RAS) -10
Pennsylvania 43/56 (RAS)-13
Georgia 36/63 (RAS) -27
Kentucky 36/63 (RAS) -27

We might have an easier time in '12 carrying Florida than PA!--depends on how the economy is picking up by then, too.

[thereismore]

1. Ohio swings left (2008) and now it swings right. It's a crazy state. nt

[WI_DEM]

2. Still Obama is in better shape there currently than PA.

[doc03]

3. There is no way in that short of time period that the economy

will pick up enough to win in 2012.

[Kdillard]

4. Isn't PA where Republican hopes go to die. I mean didn't McCain

think he had a chance there.