Obama 52%, McCain 42% Among Likely Voters

Largest lead for Obama among likely voters to date

PRINCETON, NJ - Barack Obama leads John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking interviewing conducted Wednesday through Friday by an identical 52% to 42% margin among both traditional likely voters and expanded likely voters. Obama leads by a similar 52% to 41% margin among all registered voters.

In a general sense, the candidate preferences of the broad group of all registered voters have been remarkably steady for over two weeks now, showing ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
2.8
by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 1, 2008

Horse race news, but it is about horserace news time. Not very much here on polling methods or margins of error.

Why is it even this close? It would be interesting to see the degree of information and disinformation in beliefs of voters in each camp. How many women know McCain/Palin are anti-choice, how many christians think Obama is a muslim, how many tax-o-phobes think Obama would raise their taxes, how many pro-war voters think Obama would reign in the military....

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