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Gallup: Obama Leads McCain By 7

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, McCain, Polls, Republicans

Very interesting. Rasmussen and Gallup both show a 6 point lead yesterday and a 7 point lead today.

Voting preferences have been fairly stable over the last three individual days of tracking polling, all conducted since Hillary Clinton officially suspended her candidacy and publicly endorsed Obama for president on Saturday.

The seven percentage point advantage is Obama’s largest to date since Gallup began tracking the general election in March. In turn, McCain has led Obama by as many as six percentage points in early May.

So what’s McCain’s problem? Well, his attacks on Obama have fallen relatively flat because he hasn’t been able to nail him on any one particular thing. If he’s able to do that, and do it credibly, expect these numbers to swing back.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 and is filed under 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, McCain, Polls, Republicans. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Gallup: Obama Leads McCain By 7”

Avinash_Tyagi Says:
June 10th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
nah, its because the economy is so bad, and more people are dems than reps, McCain won’t be able to win unless he can frame the race in terms that are favorable to him
Balloon Juice Says:
June 10th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
[...] ” Andrew Sullivan ignores Obama and points out McCain’s standing. Donklephant has a rather underwhelming response and the other big boosterism is from… Fox [...]
Richard1 Says:
June 10th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Actually, McCain doesn’t have a problem. Obama should be up over 10 points, and he isn’t. Obama is the one who won the Democratic nomination last week, not McCain. It’s Obama who has a problem.

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