Columbus Dispatch's final Ohio poll, which has had a perfect track record . . .

. . . in modern political history of predicting the winner of the state's electoral votes, has Obama up 52%-46%:


Sunday, November 2, 2008 3:37 AM

After an unprecedented campaign that seemed to break a record for breaking records, Barack Obama stands on the threshold of history -- if his poll numbers hold up.

The final Dispatch Poll shows the Illinois Democrat with a 6-point lead in Ohio, virtually identical to the 7-point advantage he held a month ago. The survey is one of many in key states across America that indicate Obama is headed toward a win Tuesday that might not be close, although Republican John McCain is furiously trying to mount one more comeback and prove the pollsters wrong.


The winner of the last Dispatch Poll before a presidential election has carried the state every time in modern Ohio history, although the final survey was a dead heat four years ago between Sen. John Kerry and President Bush, who won by 2.1 percentage points.


The survey shows he has sprinted to a 14-point lead among those who already have cast a ballot under Ohio's new early-voting law, and he is up by a ratio of almost 3-to-1 with voters who registered for the first time this year. Such voters now make up about 10 percent of the electorate.

read: http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/11/02/copy/POLL02.ART_ART_11-02-08_A1_93BOK6G.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

that said, does anybody believe that they aren't going to go even farther than they did eight/four years ago to steal it?

. . . we have a Democrat-run state government there this time around.

put a major effort into stealing Ohio again, with massive caging, suppression tactics using their nemeses: LAWYERS and lawsuits, as well as the corrupt USDOJ

I'm pessimistic by nature, and the last eight years have done nothing to change that outlook

only hope things, uh....change, this time