Barack Obama leads John McCain 50 percent to 40 percent with 10 percent undecided in a Pew Research Center poll conducted Oct. 9-12. He led by 7 points in Pew's last poll in late September. Pew notes that the number of voters who say they will definitely not support McCain has risen from 37 percent in early August to 45 percent.
Voters say by 47 percent to 33 percent that they trust Obama more to handle the financial crisis and the economy with 20 percent saying that they trust either or neither. They are split at 48 percent to 47 percent on whether Obama has done a good job in explaining how he would handle the crisis, but for McCain, 67 percent said he did only a fair or poor job while 29 percent said he did an excellent or good job.
The other national polls this week:
- Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg: Obama 50, McCain 41.
- New York Times/CBS News: Obama 53, McCain 39.
- USA Today/Gallup: Obama 51, McCain 44.
- Washington Post/ABC News Obama 53, McCain 43.
- Newsweek: Obama 52, McCain 41.
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Look at those beautiful numbers! I guess McCain shot craps again. When Palin and her trailer trash go back to Alaska the lower 48 can get back to the business of sanity. Palin told grade school children that Jesus and dinosaurs existed together 2000 years ago. Did you McCain/Palin supporters really think that America would allow somebody that ignorant and myopic to be one heartbeat away from the most powerful office in the world?
Posted by: madisonhack
| October 15, 2008 11:16 AM
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