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"It is hard to envision a path to victory for John McCain that does not include a win in Pennsylvania," CBS' Chip Reid had opined. Accordingly CBS selected the Keystone commonwealth for Jeff Glor's swing state feature. Glor, borrowed from CBS' Early Show, noted that McCain's six days on the stump there over the past two weeks had prompted Barack Obama's response and an impending visit by Bill Clinton. Yet Glor's example of voters still to be persuaded was a pair of married Republicans in Allentown, hardly encouraging for the GOP. The laid-off husband is "most likely" for Obama; his wife "leaning slightly" towards McCain.
NBC's state race chosen for an In Depth feature was North Carolina, a Republican stronghold in every election since 1980. John Yang accounted for its new status as battleground by pointing to voter registration among African-Americans, layoffs in the Wachovia-led banking industry, Obama's funding advantage and the Democrat's "massive" field operation.
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