Poll: Early Voters Strongly Prefer Obama

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CBS

CBS News Survey Shows Democratic Ticket With 19 Point Edge Among Early Voters, 13 Point Lead Among Likely Voters Overall

(CBS) With just three days left until Election Day, a new CBS News poll finds that the Democratic presidential ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden leads its Republican counterpart by 13 points among likely voters, 54 percent to 41 percent. That margin reflects an increase of two points in the Obama-Biden ticket's lead from a CBS News/New York Times poll released Thursday.

About one in five voters say they have already cast their vote, either in person or through the mail, and these early voters prefer the Democratic ticket by an even greater margin. Obama leads among early voters 57 percent to 38 percent, a nineteen point advantage.

The economy is by far the issue of top concern to voters, and they continue to view Obama more favorably on the issue than they do his Republican rival, John McCain. Fifty-one percent of registered voters say Obama would make the economy better, while just 29 percent say McCain would.

On the question of who will raise taxes, the candidates are roughly even: Forty-seven percent say Obama would raise their taxes and 48 percent say McCain would do so.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/01/opinion/polls/main4563051.shtml

[Kolesar]

1. Dear John McCain

Thanks for Sarah :wink:

[KurtNYC]

3. not sure I'm reading your comment correctly but Obama beat McCain

Palin is the symptom of McCain's problems; she is not the problem itself. McCain was erratic; all tactic and no strategy. Dozens of mis-steps along the way, Palin was only one of them. A large one I grant you but even if McCain had named Romney or someone else with actual experience, Obama would be putting them away.

I think the early voting reflects enthusiasm for Obama as well as anxiety about voting problems.

[Kolesar]

4. Obama is the best political scientist I have ever seen

He certainly understood how to motivate a cadre of supporters into becoming grassroots activists. His execution in the primaries was masterful.

He has kept on message throughout his campaign. What I think it delightful is that he has a powerful message without being specific. Specificity would leave him open to attacks. That has got to have the Republicans in a tortured twist.

I would love to do a linguistic analysis of Obama's message-system.

McCain is poorly matched against Obama. He is undisciplined and has run his campaign with a sense of entitlement: "I'm a combat veteran, so I have earned this". His pick of Palin was reckless. He lost a lot of trust with that ditz.

I am in a stressful period, but at least I have something to be happy about. Go-bama!

[kayakjohnny]

2. I just read this in today's 'Duh Magazine'. It was on the newstand this morning.