By Peter St. Onge | Charlotte Observer

The much-anticipated Time/CNN battleground polls have been released Wednesday, with Barack Obama showing surprising strength in three states, including N.C., that many were beginning to write off.

The results:

Florida: Obama 48, McCain 48

North Carolina: McCain 48, Obama 47

Ohio: Obama 49, McCain 47

Indiana: McCain 51, Obama 45

Wisconsin: Obama 50, McCain 47

The North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida polls give Obama quite a bounce from recent polls, including surveys released today from American Research Group that have McCain up 11 in North Carolina and six in Ohio. The Time/CNN polls were conducted more recently than most of the ARG polls, however, perhaps reflecting a slight Obama uptick from the past few days of pointed economic swipes at McCain.

Read the full story at CharlotteObserver.com.

For the first time since the Republican convention, Barack Obama is preferred over McCain in Gallup's daily tracking poll.

Read the item at McClatchy's Hot Off the Trail.

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