Voters in Poll Want Priority to Be Economy, Their Top Issue

New York Times ^ | Published: August 20, 2008 | MICHAEL COOPER and DALIA SUSSMAN

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Senators Barack Obama and John McCain are heading into their conventions neck and neck in the presidential race, with voters focused overwhelmingly on economic issues but convinced that the candidates are not paying enough attention to their priorities, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

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"The nationwide telephone poll was conducted Aug. 15-19 with 1,012 adults, including 869 registered voters. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points."

Hmmm. No mention of numbers of Democrats or Republicans polled, no likely voters, not even all registered to vote. Sounds like great sampling technique to me!

[Parley Baer]

That should bold well for Mitt.

[FlingWingFlyer]

What they are trying to say is, “Drill here, Drill now, Pay less”.

[Carley]

On the contrary I heard a poll being discussed today that had NATIONAL SECURITY being the first concern of all voters.

[princess leah]

What do we have in common with democrats? We have to go get gasoline the same as THEY DO...guess what? NO amount of talking has gotten our gas prices down to where we haven’t forgotten how high they have risen this past year! We may not have a real smart sense of self-preservation, but we DO KNOW that gas is costing us a WHOLE LOT of money OUT OF OUR POCKETS! THIS WILL BE THE #1 issue for voters - REPUBLICANS need to PRESS THIS ALL THE WAY TO NOVEMBER!

[jerod]

In this new poll, McCain is ahead by 5 points and the economy is the top issue with all of the respondents...

So Barry O is obviously in worse shape than they thought he was. If he can’t win amongst a crowd who think that the economy is the top issue, how’s he doing going to do with people who put security and the fight against terrorism as their top issue???

The answer - A lot worse.

My advice to Pro-Obama Democrats is to bail in favor of Hillary before it’s too late.

BTW - I wonder how many sleepless nights Bill Richardson is now suffering from right now?