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NBC/Wall Street J. Poll: McCain Better Prepared Contributed by: Kory Nelson on 7/27/2008 Tom Browkaw announced today that the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reported that 53% of the American people believe John McCain has the knowledge and experience to be President, as compared to only 19% who believe Obama has such qualifications. Similarly 53% of Americans believe McCain would be a good commander in chief, as compared to only 25% for Obama. If other polls are correct in reporting that McCain and Obama are close to each in terms of general support, it would therefore mean thata moderate, but significant, percentage of Americans are willing to support someone for President who they believe doesn't have the knowledge or experience to do the job, and who would not be a good commander-in-chief in the time of war and an ongoing battle against Muslim extremists who desire to commit acts of mass destruction and murder on the U.S. homeland. What's up with that? On Sep 14, 2:23 am, mike532 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Poll: Biden Better > Preparedhttp://www.truthout.org/article/poll-biden-better-prepared > Poll shows voters think Joe Biden is better prepared to be President > than Sarah Palin. (Photo: Getty Images) > Washington - John McCain and Barack Obama head into the fall > campaign neck and neck, despite questions in many voters' minds about > whether McCain's running mate is as qualified as Obama's, according to > a new Ipsos/McClatchy poll. > > The national poll finds Republican McCain with the support of 46 > percent of registered voters and Democrat Obama with 45 percent. The > survey has an error margin of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points. > > Independent candidate Ralph Nader has 2 percent, and Libertarian > candidate Bob Barr 1 percent. Another 6 percent were undecided or > didn't support any of those choices. > > "The race has tightened," said Clifford Young, senior vice > president of Ipsos Public Affairs, which conducted the poll Sept. 5-9, > its first since the two major-party conventions kicked off the fall > general-election campaign. > > "McCain got a very good bump from his convention and now it's a > real race." > > Bounces up in polls immediately following conventions are no > guarantee of victory in November. Candidates who got higher post- > convention poll bounces than their opponents and went on to lose > include Barry Goldwater in 1964, Jimmy Carter in 1980, Walter Mondale > in 1984, and Michael Dukakis in 1988, according to a study by Karlyn > Bowman of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank > in Washington. > > With the Obama-McCain race so close less than two months until the > election, several factors could prove pivotal in coming weeks, > including how the two campaigns do in winning the support of the > roughly 15 percent of voters who could go either way, and how well > Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, does in assuring doubters that > she's up to the job. > > The poll finds that registered voters continue to wonder whether > Palin, a first-term Alaska governor, is as qualified to step up to the > job of president as Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, who's been in the > Senate for more than three decades. > > A majority of voters, 60 percent, think that Biden is qualified to > be president, while 31 percent think he is not. > > By comparison, 48 percent of voters think Palin is qualified, > while 44 percent think she is not. > > "While Palin has electrified the base, her overall appeal is less > than Biden's," Young said. > > On issues, McCain leads on foreign policy and national security. > Obama leads on jobs and the economy, health care and representing > change. > > Voters split almost evenly on which is a better leader. "Neither > has been able to dominate on that," Young said. > > At stake for all the candidates are the roughly one in six voters > still up for grabs, a total that includes those still undecided and > those who still could change their minds about Obama or McCain. > > Among McCain supporters who are registered voters, 77 percent said > they'd definitely vote for him; 13 percent said they'd probably vote > for him, and 10 percent said they still could change their minds. > > Among Obama supporters, 80 percent said they'd "definitely" vote > for him; 12 percent said they'd "probably" vote for him; and 8 percent > said they could still change their mind. > > McCain leads 57 percent to 34 percent among non-Hispanic whites, > and by 53 percent to 38 percent among voters age 55 and older. > > Obama leads among voters age 18 to 34 by a margin of 55 percent to > 34 percent, among non-Hispanic blacks by 90 percent to 3 percent, and > among Hispanics by 58 percent to 34 percent. > > They are in a dead heat among voters age 35 to 54. > > Methodology: > > The Ipsos\McClatchy poll was conducted Sept. 5-9, 2008. > > For the survey, a nationally representative, randomly selected > sample of 1,018 adults across the U.S. was interviewed by Ipsos. With > a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate within 3.1 > percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been > had the entire adult population in the U.S. been polled. The margin of > error will be larger within regions and for other sub-groupings of the > survey population. > > Within this sample, Ipsos interviewed 876 respondents who self > identified as registered voters. With a sample of this size, the > results are considered accurate within 3.3 percentage points, 19 times > out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire adult > population in the U.S. been polled. The margin of error will be larger > within regions and for other sub-groupings of the survey population. > > These data were weighted to ensure the sample's regional and age/ > sex composition reflects that of the actual U.S. population according > to data from the U.S. Census. > » --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
