Two polls out today show Clinton's lead slipping by varying degrees in the Keystone State. A new Rasmussen survey found Clinton just five points ahead of Obama among likely voters. That's five points down from the lead Rasmussen gave her one week ago.
Meanwhile a new SurveyUSA poll of Pennsylvania voters shows Clinton enjoying a 12 point lead over the Illinois Senator. It's still a comfortable margin, but down significantly from the 19 point lead she held over Obama in SurveyUSA's poll three weeks ago.
One factor that might account for the apparent tightening is the controversy surrounding Clinton's "misspeaking" about her trip to Bosnia. Of respondents to the Rasmussen poll, 47 percent said that they had followed that story "very closely" and 19 percent "consider that issue to be very important."
Other recent developments that may have helped Obama include his gaining the endorsement of popular Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey. In a column yesterday, Franklin and Marshall professors Terry Madonna and Michael Young posited that the Casey endorsement "may be a game-ender" for Clinton. The Obama camp has also been vastly outspending the cash-strapped Clinton campaign on advertising.
In other Pennsylvania news, while voter registration for the primary ended a week ago, the Secretary of State's office is still counting all the new forms. The final tally won't be ready until next week, but according to Time.com, the number of Democratic voters continues to skyrocket.
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