John McCain has closed in on Barack Obama in yet another major national poll. McCain now trails Obama by only 45 percent to 42 percent in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey conducted Aug. 15-18, down from the 6 point leads Obama held in June and July. Four percent answered "neither" and 8 percent were undecided. The margin of error is 3.1 percent.
One finding sure to stoke the fervor of Hillary Clinton diehards said if Clinton was the Democratic candidate, she would be leading 49 percent to 43 percent. That is tempered somewhat by the fact that, by the same margin, voters said they did not hope she would be president some day.
Obama still has a problem with those Clinton backers. Fifty-two percent of them say they will vote for Obama, but 21 percent are backing McCain, with an additional 27 percent who are undecided or want to vote for someone else.
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I hope Sen. Obama is reading this post and picks Sen. Clinton! Then we can be united as Democrats to win election. I'm voting for Sen. Obama as President regardless, but other Sen. Clinton supporters may not!
Posted by: kind67
| August 20, 2008 7:36 PM
This is nothing new, of course. Along with Clinton's lead over Obama in the popular vote, her lead over him in the key, battleground states, her lead over him in the major general election demographics and her critical lead over him in the electoral vote metric, her primary campaign also proved to the superdelegates that she beat McCain in the pre-election polls where Obama did not.
Most of the major national polls in the last few months of the primaries showed Hillary Clinton beating McCain by greater margins than Obama did...if he beat him at all.
Posted by: Gawd
| August 20, 2008 7:49 PM
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