Gallup Daily: Obama Retains Lead, 48% to 41%

[DogPoundPup]

Second day with Obama holding a significant lead over McCain

Barack Obama has stretched his lead over John McCain among national registered voters to seven percentage points, 48% to 41%, in Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted July 23-25.

This represents a continuation of Obama's frontrunner position in Gallup's Friday report, when he led McCain by six points, 47% to 41%. Earlier this week, Obama and McCain were separated by just two to four points, but that was before the extensive U.S. news coverage of the last leg of Obama's foreign tour. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.)

Obama's particularly large leads over McCain in Friday and Saturday's tracking suggest that the massive publicity surrounding Obama's speech at the Victory Tower in Berlin on Friday -- the only major public event of the trip -- and coverage of Obama's meetings with the heads of state in France and Germany may have tilted U.S. voter preferences more in his favor.

Notably, Obama's current seven-point lead over McCain ties his widest since the start of Gallup Poll Daily tracking of the general election in early March, and was achieved only once previously. He led McCain by seven points immediately after Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign for the Democratic nomination in early June. However, that proved to be a short-lived bounce, with Obama holding a six- to seven-point lead for only three days before it dropped back to two to three points.
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[skamaria]

1. Holy Cow!

How Much lead can this young man retain before it affects his brain.

[bbinacan]

2. After the European and ME tour

I'm surprised his lead is not more.

[Union Thug]

3. I'm not surprised...a local radio station (crappy pop my kid likes) was giving away tickets....

if listeners would call in and answer a question correctly. "What country is Obama visiting today?" This was when Obama was in Iraq. Guess what - even with clues like "Baghdad" callers were not able to answer the question - I don't know how many people it took for them to finally find a winner, as I had arrived at my destination before the contest ended.

It was really amazing. Many Americans are really THAT uninformed.

[demosincebirth]

6. You should watch "Jaywalking " with Jay Leno. Then you'll

really see how stupid many of our fellow Americans are

[goclark]

4. But two networks just said that they are neck in neck

and maybe Obama will do better when he is at home like John McCain.

I am serious, my ears heard that on two "MSM" sites.

[goclark]

5. Oops ~ duplicate

[Fluffdaddy]

7. wake me in October when polls mean something.