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Poll shows Obama up in Florida

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Tags: Politics, John McCain, Barack Obama, Polls

New polling numbers indicate that Barack Obama has received a "bounce" from his ascendency to becoming the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party for president.

Three new polls conducted by Quinnipiac University show Obama leading for the first time in the three key battleground states, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.

Quinnipiac shows Obama leading McCain 47 to 43 percent.

The Ohio poll shows Obama leading McCain 48 to 42 percent, and in Pennyslvania, another state considered...