Obama Leads McCain by 9 Points Among Registered Voters (Harris poll)

[jarjarbing]

July 21, 2008 – With just six weeks to go until the Democrat and Republican Presidential conventions, the general election is almost officially here. Results from a new Harris Poll show that:

* In a four way race, Barack Obama leads John McCain among registered voters 44 percent to 35 percent, while Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate and Ralph Nader each receive 2 percent. Sixteen percent of registered voters are not sure who they will vote for yet;
* John McCain is holding onto just slightly more of his base as just over three-quarters of Republicans (77%) say they will vote for him versus just under three-quarters of Democrats (74%) who will vote for Barack Obama; and,
* Among Independents, Obama has a 12-point lead (38% to 26%), but one-quarter of Independents (25%) are not sure, 4 percent would vote for Bob Barr and 3 percent for Ralph Nader.

These are some of the results of a Harris Poll of 2,690 U.S. adults surveyed online by Harris Interactive® between July 3 and 11, 2008.

http://harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=932

[bluestateguy]

1. The media routinely ignores Harris polls

I suspect because they are usually more favorable to Obama.

Obama leading by 9 does not fit the MSM script of ("Why is Obama not way ahead in the polls when everything is so bad, and people hate Bush, etc?"). So if they even cover this, the spiel will be "Is the poll accurate?" and the MSM bobbleheads will proceed to tear the poll's methodology apart. That's what they did when Newsweek had Obama +16 a couple of weeks ago.

Most likely, though, the media will just ignore this poll.