Report: Obama Internal Poll Shows Two-Point Race in Pennsylvania

An internal Barack Obama campaign poll has the Democrat ahead of John McCain by just two percentage points.

WILK radio host Steve Corbett said Tuesday he obtained an Obama campaign e-mail about the internal poll showing a tight race. Pollster.com’s trend line of public Pennsylvania polls has Obama leading McCain 54 percent to 38 percent.

Obama’s Pennsylvania communications director Sean Smith said on Corbett’s show that the field organizer who sent the e-mail may have been trying to energize Obama volunteers. Smith wouldn’t confirm the internal poll numbers, but he said that the e-mail was sent without permission and that the campaign worker has since been reprimanded.

UPDATE: The poll is apparently from last week. But it may help explain Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell’s (D) call for Obama to campaign more in his state and McCain’s renewed emphasis there.

Listen to Corbett and Smith talk about the e-mail below.