Posted on 09/24/2008 11:03:10 AM PDT by tatown
Barack Obama has recaptured the lead — 45 percent to 39 percent — over John McCain in the presidential race, according to a FOX News poll released Wednesday.
As majorities of each party's faithful back their party nominee, the battle stays focused on that most sought-after group of voters: independents.
These voters, evenly divided between the candidates in August, swung to McCain earlier this month, which gave him his first lead over Obama since April. In this latest poll independents give a slight edge to Obama, though many have moved back into the undecided column.
Click here to see the raw data.
In addition, the poll shows Obama has improved his position on the most important issue to voters this year — the economy. He is seen as the best candidate to handle the nation's economy, and more voters also say he would be better at handling the current financial crisis facing the country.
Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from September 22 to September 23. The poll has a 3-point error margin.
McCain held a 3-point advantage earlier this month immediately after the Republican convention (September 8-9). Before that Obama had a 3-point lead going into the Democratic convention (August 19-20). Looking back as far as a year ago, in head-to-head polling neither candidate has had a lead outside the poll's margin of sampling error. Obama's lead today is just at the outside edge of the margin of error.
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RV poll.
Enough.
A good thing I guess is he is not at 50%, the one that is
GARBAGE!!!
This poll has a sample of:
43% D
34% R
Obama up 5% with Men- What a Farce.
Fox was the only credible pollster to have Kerry winning on Election day 2004. Zogby/Sabato do not count.
A poll of registered voters with what seems like a 41-34 D-R split.
I don’t believe a word of it !!!!
Yuck, please no.
Shoot....it's only registered voters.....I wonder if they called Tiger Woods in Cuyahoga county (Cleveland, OHio)....he got registered just this year.
What?......Tiger doesn't live in Ohio?
Reagan would be behind in this poll also.
FOX is trying to please Democrats who think they are right wing bias.
JUNK
National popular vote polls are meaningless, the only ones that might be worth watching are those in the battleground states where electoral votes are up for grabs.
The last online disagreement with Tony Snow, before he became press secretary, was the fact that FNC used polling data that was overweighted with democrats.
He defended the practice and we agreed to disagree on the integrity of the poll.
I don’t think there’s any question Obama is in the lead now, but I think it is more along the lines of Gallup/Rasmussen. Just look at their track records. Fox/Opinion Dynamics actually predicted Kerry winning the popular vote in 2004.
McCain needs to let Sarahcuda loose. I think she can address these economic issues/concerns in a way that will connect with ordinary people (swing voters).
The polls bother me, for this reason. When Obama ran against Hillary in the primary, he always overpolled. He would be slated to win by large leads in the polls, and Hillary would win, or come much closer than they had thought possible. (check out NH numbers, for instance)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_Democratic_primary,_2008)
In polling for the national election, if that happens, if Obama goes in with a lead in the polls and yet loses, it’s going to make the aftermath of 2000 and 2004 look like a cake walk.
just amazing, trust no one.
Looks like all polls are trending this way. No surprise really in that convention bounces wear off. This election will likely come down to the debates. McCain has to win them in convincing fashion. If he does then he will be the next POTUS barring some sort of scandal or some awful gaffe.
Can you please explain this to me:
It says Dems=369 people and Repu=306 people
Does this mean that they asked 20% more Democrats???
Is my calculation wrong??
306+ (20% x 306)= 367
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