Posted on 02/13/2008 7:37:26 PM PST by jdm
Barack Obama has gained strength in prospective general election match-ups against Republicans John McCain and Mike Huckabee, while Hillary Clinton does not fare as well, a new nationwide Zogby Interactive poll shows.
The online survey shows that Obama would defeat both McCain and Huckabee, while Clinton would lose to McCain and only defeat Huckabee by a small margin.
Clinton struggles among political independents, trailing McCain by a wide margin and Huckabee by a slim margin in that demographic, the survey shows. Against both men, she wins less than 80% of her own party. However, she does better among Democrats than either McCain or Huckabee does among Republicans. Huckabee wins just 70% support in a match-up against Clinton, while McCain wins 72% of the GOP support against her.
Obama has much stronger Democratic Party support, winning 87% backing of the Democrats when pitted against Huckabee, and 84% of the Democratic support against McCain. Among independents, Obama leads McCain by a 46% to 33% edge and Huckabee by a 48% to 31% advantage.
Among men, Obama narrowly loses to McCain but narrowly leads Huckabee. Among women, he leads both Republicans by margins that are wider than the advantage Clinton enjoys over McCain and Huckabee. However, Clinton loses to both McCain and Huckabee among men.
Obama held wides leads over the GOPers among younger voters. Among older voters, Obama held a narrow lead over Huckabee, but trailed McCain. Clinton led Huckabee and McCain among younger voters, but trailed them both among voters age 65 and older.
The online survey included 7,468 likely voters nationwide. It was conducted Feb. 8-11, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 1.2 percentage points.
The Arab pollster likes Obama and gives him the lead, months before the election!! What a shocker!
If you doubt this I offer the post-election news segments of last evening. The first was of Obama at a rally acknowledging his victories and the mood was energized, populated with voters of every stripe and, of course, the speech was well articulated and rousing.
This was followed by McCain who was acknowledging his wins. It had all of the excitement of a funeral, without the fun. He was surrounded by a bunch of Rep dinosaurs and he delivered a completely uninspired speech that was poorly read from the prompter.
It was disheartening and, frankly, creepy in the contrast. It made me want to turn it off but, like the train wreck it was, I couldn't tear myself away from such a disastrous presentation.
IMO This is yet another one of these self-serving Polls designed to affect the outcomes and direct peoples thinking as opposed to being an accurate gauge of reality. This election cycle is full of these and there are way too many and way to frequent. I just cannot see how McCain can win in November unless both Dems just quit and go away.
The beauty of the Democrat battle is the end will result in a great deal of bitter feelings among the party loyalists. If Obama gets the nod the Latinos won’t vote for him. If Hillary gets the nod, black Americans won’t kick down the doors to vote for her.
Whoever wins the election, the nation loses because both parties are offering the same thing, liberal insanity.
The final words of a man on his death bed, to his son, says it best. “They’re all in it together.”
The White House is moving left.
The only question is “how far?”
The next POTUS will be Obama. He will take at least 40 states. McAmnesty will be our Mondale.
yitbos
Only if Republicans fail to unite behind them. If they don’t, expect Al Sharpton as a member of the Supreme Court.
yitbos
“Only if Republicans fail to unite behind them.”
Too many of us look at the mans’ behavior over the past several years and see no reason to reward him for it.
Ugh, is that his wife?
In Virginia, Hillary whipped McCain like Obama whipped her.
Zogby is smoking Hash again..
an ONLINE poll with a ONE POINT TWO margin of error!???! Gimme a fat EFFING break here! Online polls, as everything on the internet, are always underrepresented females, older folks, poorer peeps, blacks etc.
With online polls, you CAN NOT say anything valid about the general pop. just about those who are connected. Last i checked, still 40 percent is not internet savvy. also, they could be canadians or other foreigners.
And what about those of us who just plain work too much to participate in online polling?
McCain can’t actually lose the white house. because around 3 in ten democrats say they’ll vote mccain if their nominee loses. Add the racist and sexist Dems to that, and President McCainer is a nobrainer.
One of his "COMMUNEity organizers". Hussein breaks out the big smiles for communist Che worshipers who make phone calls for his campaign.
yitbos
Lord, you are in control!!! How about we ALL do a lot of praying between now and Nov.
If we have to have one of them, I’d rather have osamabama - she’s been in the White House already and knows the ropes...
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