Too Progressive

You know the Republican party is in trouble when John McCain only leads Barack Obama by six points in one of the most reliably red states in the country. According to a Rasmussen Reports poll released today McCain would beat Obama by a 50-44 margin in Mississippi. In 2004 George Bush won the state by a 20 point margin defeating John Kerry 60-40 and a Democrat hasn’t won the state since Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford in 1976.

Now obviously this doesn’t mean (nor do I honestly believe) that Obama will carry the state, but to be so far out and only trail McCain in Mississippi by six points, I’d say Obama has a healthy shot at swiping the state from Republicans in November!