Poll: Electorate concerned about economy

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The worsening U.S. economy is weighing on the American public's mind six weeks before the election, a Los Angeles Times poll indicates.

The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released Tuesday also indicated respondents weren't crazy about the $700 billion plan offered by the Bush administration to stabilize and bail out the ailing U.S. financial markets.

The Times/Bloomberg poll was released as a Washington Post/Wall Street Journal poll indicated Democratic candidate Barack Obama held slim leads in swing states Michigan and Minnesota and having a more solid lead in Wisconsin, the Times reported. The new poll also indicated Obama pulled ahead of Republican candidate John McCain in Colorado -- a state President George Bush won four years ago -- by 4 percentage points, 49 percent to 45 percent, after trailing the Republican by 1 percentage point in a comparable August survey.

Complete results from the Los Angeles Times poll were unavailable.