Upper Dublin in the Washington Post

The Washington Post's David Broder staked out a spot near an Upper Dublin library and quizzed people on their view of the presidential election:

What has changed since last spring in this suburb is both the worldview and the impression of the candidates. Back then, the economy was not a major worry, and opinion was divided between McCain's stay-the-course policy in Iraq and the Democrats' withdrawal plans.

Now, economic anxieties are pervasive and Obama, whose ads are seen far more frequently than McCain's, is viewed as the candidate more seriously addressing those domestic problems.

Later

At the time of the primary, Obama was fighting two foes: Clinton and the voters' lack of familiarity with him. The Democratic National Convention and those ubiquitous ads have dealt with the latter problem, and Clinton herself was working the Philadelphia suburbs on behalf of Obama yesterday.

In early September, Obama opened a storefront headquarters not far from the library where I was interviewing voters -- one of three such offices in Montgomery County alone. The day after I visited, a platoon of New York volunteers was arriving to help local supporters canvass the same neighborhoods.

It's hard to see how John McCain can overcome these odds in Pennsylvania.

This is surely good news for State Rep. Rick Taylor, up for re-election in Upper Dublin.

(h/t Chris Cillizza)