Posted on 08/13/2008 4:00:52 PM PDT by Fred
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press today released the latest national poll that shows a nip-and-tuck presidential race.
Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain 46 percent to 43 percent among registered voters, barely outside the poll's margin of error. Obama's edge is down from 48 percent to 40 percent in the same poll in June and 47 percent to 42 percent last month.
"Two factors appear to be at play in shifting voter sentiment," the pollsters say. "First, McCain is garnering more support from his base - including Republicans and white evangelical Protestants - than he was in June, and he also has steadily gained backing from white working class voters over this period. Secondly and more generally, the Arizona senator has made gains on his leadership image. An even greater percentage of voters than in June now see McCain as the candidate who would use the best judgment in a crisis, and an increasing percentage see him as the candidate who can get things done."
Obama, meanwhile, has made little headway in increasing support among core Democrats, the pollsters say. And he's having trouble solidifying the backing of former rival Hillary Clinton's loyalists. About 72 percent say they will vote for Obama, while McCain is getting 88 percent support among those who favored his GOP rivals.
The poll was conducted from July 31 to Aug. 10 among 2,414 registered voters and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
With all the emotion, media help and propaganda, if “even” is the best ‘Bama can do then he’ll be WAY behind when the real votes are counted.
Does anyone think that if McCain chooses Sarah Palin as his VP he would pull some of those Hillery supporters?
well.. mccain doesn’t have a neck and obama is a pencil neck.
bttt
“white evangelical Protestants”
What is the media’s obsession with these people? Don’t liberal preachers (see: the right, good Rev. Wright) vastly outnumber conservatives?
kewl
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