"This poll is more good news than bad news for Obama, " says Alan Abramowitz, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta.

NPR: Poll: Rural Voters Not Reliably Republican in 2008

If I was paid enough and if I was a scientist, I could probably tell you that there's no relationship between cigarette smoking and bad health, or sugar eating and bad teeth, or whatever.

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