[AirForceGeorge]

Presidential Race Draws Even GOP Base Getting Behind McCain August 13, 2008

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With less than two weeks to go before the start of the presidential nominating conventions, Barack Obama's lead over John McCain has disappeared. Pew's latest survey finds 46% of registered voters saying they favor or lean to the putative Democratic candidate, while 43% back his likely Republican rival. In late June, Obama held a comfortable 48%-to-40% margin over McCain, which narrowed in mid-July to 47% to 42%.

Two factors appear to be at play in shifting voter sentiment. First, McCain is garnering more support from his base - including Republicans and white evangelical Protestants - than he was in June, and he also has steadily gained backing from white working class voters over this period. Secondly and more generally, the Arizona senator has made gains on his leadership image. An even greater percentage of voters than in June now see McCain as the candidate who would use the best judgment in a crisis, and an increasing percentage see him as the candidate who can get things done.

Conversely, Obama has made little progress in increasing his support among core Democrats since June - currently 83% favor him compared with 87% of Republicans who back McCain. The likely Democratic nominee is still getting relatively modest support from Hillary Clinton's former supporters: 72% of them support Obama, compared with the 88% support level that McCain receives from backers of his formal GOP rivals. Obama's strong points with voters are in being seen as the candidate with new ideas and as someone who connects well with ordinary people.

[SlowBoat407]

[jerod]

Obama's strong points with voters are in being seen as the candidate with new ideas and as someone who connects well with ordinary people.

How many ordinary people get advice from Celebrities?

He's about as ordinary as a cuttlefish.

[MrEdd]

Pew research was founded by the Tribune to manufacture slanted polls for the paper. A number of years ago they changed the name to Pew research to advance an illusion of disconnection.

The history and origin of the center was still on their web page until about 4 years ago. - Oopsie.

[LibLieSlayer]

pew... this poll stinks... stinks like a leftist trying to paint osamabama as actually leading... when his muzzie/marxist self is imploding!

LLS

[Riodacat]

Is this before or after the McCain “I speak for ALL Americans that, today, we are all Georgian”?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Obama is just plain bad news for anybody with a brain.....

[Recovering_Democrat]

Can you imagine how low Hussein’s numbers would be without all the fellating press coverage? He’d be in the 20s.

[Sooth2222]

The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, was conducted by telephone - both landline phones and cell phones - from July 31-August 10 among 2,414 registered voters.

Registered voters, and it covers two weekends in August.

Plus "Olympics"! (Even if not on vacation, at the seashore or in the mountains, what red-blooded Republican male is going to talk to a pollster when Women's Beach Volleyball is on TV???)

[Salvation]

This is looking better and better.

Who is changing from “undecided” to voting for McCain?

PS. They didn’t check with me by making a phone call. LOL!