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Opinion: Battleground bucks favoring Barack Obama over John McCain

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With Barack Obama on vacation and John McCain maintaining a schedule light on generating news, we decided to poke around at the Open Secrets site, to see where the money is going from donors in likely battleground states.

Advantage: Obama.

Now we realize where the donations come from does NOT mean that the votes will follow. But it’s still interesting to take the measure of it. Below is The Times’ interactive map of states, with the battleground states defined as those in which the margin of 2004 victory was less than 8 percentage points.

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Now we go over to Open Secrets and look at its tables of states and political contributions. For the purposes of these tables, we’re leaving out the withdrawn candidates. And the totals include primaries, which skews the results a bit for Obama since the Democratic fight was more protracted than the Republican fight. But it’s still interesting to mull.

State

McCain raised

Obama raised

advantage

Colorado

$1,791,828

$3,386,366

Obama

Delaware

208,016

230,955

Obama

Florida

9,793,200

8,092,536

McCain

Iowa

254,430

644,961

Obama

Michigan

2,942,741

2,467,003

McCain

Minnesota

1,215,608

1,786,394

Obama

Missouri

1,359,332

1,988,004

Obama

Nevada

1,147,931

751,545

McCain

New Hampshire

538,505

945,474

Obama

New Jersey

2,990,941

4,727,378

Obama

New Mexico

319,863

1,192,070

Obama

Ohio

1,866,001

2,134,689

Obama

Oregon

650,964

1,813,428

Obama

Pennsylvania

2,575,068

4,942,149

Obama

Washington

1,317,906

4,995,383

Obama

Wisconsin

831,661

1,378,850

Obama

-- Scott Martelle

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