Bad News for Obama: His Big Lead in Illinois Narrowing

by: warner todd huston | published: 10 24, 2011

A Southern Illinois newspaper reports what should be an ominous warning for Obama occurring in Illinois, his homestate. His margin of victory is narrowing in the one state that everyone assumes he should have in the bag.

In 2008 Obama won his homestate by 25 points against John McCain. That is landslide proportions, for sure. But a new phone survey cuts that huge lead to only 8 points when measured against Mitt Romney, for one, a little more against the other GOP candidates.

Obama did best against Perry, with 50.8 percent of respondents reelecting the president and 32.8 percent choosing the Texas governor.

Obama did the worst again Romney, with 46.1 percent to 38.5. Against Cain, the former chief executive officer of Godfather's Pizza, the percentage was 46.3 percent for Obama against 34 percent for Cain.

Finally against Ron Paul, Obama had a showing of 49.3 percent against 30.3 percent.

Sure Obama is still winning handily against the GOP nominees but that once monumental lead is now cut more than in half in many cases.

This shows how much support that Obama has lost. If he lost this much support in his bastion of Illinois, how bad is he doing in swing states?

Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn is also hit hard with negatives. Only 35.5 percent of the respondents said they thought the Governor was doing a good job. 56.4 percent said they disapprove.

The phone poll surveyed 1,000 registered Illinois voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent.

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