Quinnipiac: Obama Leads in Midwest; Independents Don’t Want Clinton on Ticket

Barack Obama holds leads over John McCain in three Midwestern states and in Colorado.

In Michigan, Obama leads McCain, 48 percent to 42 percent. In Minnesota, he leads 54 percent to 37 percent. In Wisconsin, Obama is up 52 percent to 39 percent.

And in Colorado, Obama gets 49 percent to 44 percent.

“But Sen. Obama should not be picking out the drapes for the Oval Office just yet,” said Quinnipiac’s Peter Brown in a release. “His lead nationally, and double digits in some key states, is not hugely different from where Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) stood four years ago at this point in the campaign.”

Interestingly, while most Democrats in these four states would like to see Obama choose Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as his running mate, most independents would not. Obama holds leads among independents of at least eight percentage points in all four of the swing states polled.

Read more about the poll here.