Two recent SurveyUSA presidential election polls to tell you about today. First, in Florida, we see Republican John McCain 6 points atop Democrat Barack Obama, in research conducted for WFLA-TV in Tampa and WKRG-TV in Mobile/Pensacola. McCain leads among both men and women here, and while Obama wins 2:1 among voters age 18-34, McCain takes more than half the vo0ters in the 34-49, 40-64, and 65+ groupings. Regionally, Obama is ahead in the southeastern part of the state; McCain leads in the rest of Florida. 

In Missouri, SurveyUSA’s polling for KCTV-TV in Kansas City and KSDK-TV in St. Louis shows McCain leading there by 5 points, 49% to 44%. McCain leads by 12 among men; Obama leads by 3 among women — a 15 point gender gap. Among voters older than McCain, McCain leads by 19 points. Among voters younger than Obama, the contest is tied. McCain leads by 28 points in southeastern Missouri, by 23 in southwestern Missouri, and by 21 in the northern portion of the state. Obama leads by 13 in the St. Louis area. The two tie in the Kansas City area. Compared to a SurveyUSA poll released ten weeks ago, when Hillary Clinton was still in the race for the Democratic nomination, McCain is up a statistically insignificant one point; Obama is down a statistically insignificant one point.