CNN Poll shows Obama with economy edge ("could be a warning sign for McCain")

[Amerigo Vespucci]

CNN) – More Americans believe Sen. Barack Obama is better suited to handle the No. 1 issue on voters' minds — the country's economic woes – than his likely rival in the fall election, Sen. John McCain.

In what could be a warning sign for the Republican presumptive presidential nominee, a new poll released by CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation found that 50 percent of registered voters nationwide say the Illinois senator would best handle the economy, while only 44 percent said the same for McCain.

The news could be particularly troublesome for McCain given voters nationwide have consistently ranked the economy as the most important issue currently facing the country. In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released last week, 42 percent of registered voters named the ailing economy as their most pressing concern, almost twice the amount that named Iraq — the second most important issue. In the same poll, nearly 80 percent of Americans said the country's economic conditions were in poor shape.

CNN Polling Director Keating Holland notes that Obama's edge over McCain on the economy is even higher among voters most concerned with the issue. "Voters who say the economy is the country's number-one problem say that Obama would do a better job than McCain on the economy by a 57 percent to 39 percent margin," Holland said.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/poll-obama-has-the-edge-on-the-economy/

[EarlG]

1. Media: this poll demonstrates Obama's weakness

"Yes, it's true that he's already ahead by 6 points on the economy, and yes, 42 percent of voters say the economy is their top issue, and okay, among those voters Obama leads McCain by 18 points, but, but, McCain is still winning white male working class anti-immigrant fundamentalist Christian Republicans who listen to Rush Limbaugh. Won't Obama's struggle with that demographic prove disastrous to his chances in November?"

[Peacetrain]

2. Democrats have not won that white male working class

in decades, including Bill Clinton.. but I think Senator Obama will win enough to get the election..This really is a change time.

The Reagan democrats are red forever.. especially those of a certain age.. some people are still fighting the sixties.. they really are.. but the millennials are bigger then the baby boomers.. (proud baby boomer here) and their time is coming.. and if they go democratic.. it will be the Obama democrats and republicans and a change for a coming generation

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. I think the immigrant issue is much bigger with freeps than most people here understand...

...seriously.

It rockets right past "wedge issue." Many prefer to attribute the right-wing platform to "gays and guns," and while that's true, the immigration issue is a major sticking point.

When McCain partnered with Ted Kennedy on immigration reform, the freeps were "hotter than a thousand suns."

They called it "shamnesty," they were livid.

If McCain "talks tough" on immigration between now and November, and refrains from "reaching across the aisle" again, he will score beaucoup points with the Morans crowd.

:patriot:

[wileedog]

6. The won't believe him

He's flip flopped on everything at least once in his career, sometimes back and forth again. If he starts talking tough now about immigration after literally SPONSORING an amnesty bill (not just supporting it), no one in their right mind is going to take his word for it. Heck I don't either - there is no doubt in my mind that if he gets elected some how he goes back to pushing amnesty like he never stopped. The guy is a serial liar.

And the Latino's have already dropped him like a hot potato too.

[futureliveshere]

4. career change i see?

Looking to move to MSNBC aren't u? ;)

[Lautremont]

5. Well! It's high time SOMETHING served as a warning sign!

Since it's clear McCain has no other possible weaknesses going up against Obama!

In fact, McCain seems little more than a big bundle of weaknesses packaged up for an epic November loss, and if this is the first warning sign Republicans have noticed, well, I don't put much stock in their powers of observation.