My ancestry is North Carolina (slave ship stopped there and dropped my ancestors off), so I've been in and around North Carolina all my life.  While it is not a "traditional" southern state, like Georgia or Alabama, it has a very VERY strong conservative and religious population (Home of Bill Graham and Andy Griffith).

So while so many Obama followers would love to see these polls as a bellwether to the future of North Carolina, I see the religious right, the conservative rural and suburban voters outside of the main city centers (and African American centers), coming out for McCain.  Not because they like John, but they don't want Obama.  

In Pennsylvania, Obama now leads by eight percentage points, 50% to 42%.

In Virginia, it's Obama 50% and McCain 47%.

The candidates are within a single point of each other in Colorado (Obama 49%, McCain 48%) (bouncing around within the MoE), Florida (Obama 47%, McCain 47%) (slow movement within MoE toward Obama), and Ohio (McCain 48% Obama 47%)(same).

1.  PDS - Palin Derangement Syndrome  Symptoms: Disliking someone so much because they differ in politcal philopsophy from you that you foam at the mouth and find yourself shaking every time a small town woman in a suit with glasses comes into view.

2.  CNNitis - A disorder characterized by an inability to realize that CNN's glory days ended at the conclusion of the FIRST Gulf War.

3.  MSNBC-cret lovers with Obama Syndrome - Symptoms: Are you STILL watching MSNBC or NBC?  Well, then, you have it. That's easy enough.

Thanks to the lousy economy, it looks like Obama is building a wide enough lead now that McCain is unlikely to be able to catch him.

But I wouldn't put too much stock in Obama winning NC.

There's still a chance for Obama to blow this.  (If his support of the bailout begins to seem more about Wall Street than Main Street, for instance.)  But it seems increasing unlikely.