Zogby poll: Obama far more electable

[LuckyTheDog]

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1449


Barack Obama has gained strength in prospective general election match-ups against Republicans John McCain and Mike Huckabee, while Hillary Clinton does not fare as well, a new nationwide Zogby Interactive poll shows.


The online survey shows that Obama would defeat both McCain and Huckabee, while Clinton would lose to McCain and only defeat Huckabee by a small margin.


Clinton struggles among political independents, trailing McCain by a wide margin and Huckabee by a slim margin in that demographic, the survey shows. Against both men, she wins less than 80% of her own party. However, she does better among Democrats than either McCain or Huckabee does among Republicans. Huckabee wins just 70% support in a match-up against Clinton, while McCain wins 72% of the GOP support against her.


Obama has much stronger Democratic Party support, winning 87% backing of the Democrats when pitted against Huckabee, and 84% of the Democratic support against McCain. Among independents, Obama leads McCain by a 46% to 33% edge and Huckabee by a 48% to 31% advantage.

[xultar]

1. Zogby ROCKS!

[George_Bonanza]

2. Lose to HUCKABEE?

Scary. But at least Hillary will have NY, NJ, and CA.

[Skip Intro]

3. yeah, he's been right on so far

:eyes:

really, any poll now about who beats who in Nov is fantasy

[sfam]

4. As an Obama supporter I call bullshit...Why would we listen to Zogby...

about anything? As much as I hope this is true, Zogby's predictions seem far less on target than my own, and I don't even have to spend money to get make mine. So, um, gee, I think Barack is more electable too! :)

[Stuckinthebush]

20. Zogby has a good track record

I'd listen to him.

[housewolf]

5. Wasn't Zogby the one who predicted California for Obama?

And New Hampshire?

Hasn't he mis-called several by large differences?

[nonconformist]

7. Yes, yes and yes. nt

[woolldog]

8. Well

this poll agrees with common sense and all the other data. Even Obama supporters were calling BS about the Zogby California poll b/c it was so different from all the other ones.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. To be fair, every major polling company had NH for Obama.

Zogby did predict Obama in California, but he's been right in pretty much every other state so far.

People forget Survey USA was often way off prior to California, Zogby, up until that point, had been more on than off.

[FrenchieCat]

25. But California, without the early votes (1,000,000) and if one added the 100,000

uncounted independent votes probably would have won. In otherwords, there just wasn't enough time. But I think that Zogby actually read it right, which is why Obama, although had been lagging by a giant percentage, didn't do badly in delegate allocation in that one!

[emilyg]

24. +Yep.

[elixir]

6. This is the man that brought you Obama's huge lead in NH...how soon we forget.

[jillan]

9. lol- I was just going to post that.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. How soon we forget he was dead on in South Carolina, Nevada and Florida.

[elixir]

21. Zomby is clearly prObama which makes him impartial, not a good thing for a pollster.

[woolldog]

15. He did have a big lead.

But that was before tear-gate.

[earthlover]

12. It's not just Zogby..check out pollingreport.com!

http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08gen.htm

Every poll posted shows Obama doing better than Clinton vs McCain.

Several show Hillary losing to McCain.

A Hillary candidacy is irrelevant if she loses. NONE of her platform gets enacted is she loses.

It is beginning to look like a vote for Hillary is a vote for McCain.

[AX10]

13. Zogby also has a lanslide win for Obama in California.

:thumbsdown:

[ldsracer]

14. heck yeah!

I know REPUBLICANS who have said theyre voting obama! He has brought a lot of people over the line.

[Araxen]

16. Why even bother?

Posting the worthless Zogby polls? They were proved to be very wrong and flawed.

[BlackVelvet04]

17. You're quoting zogby?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Stuckinthebush]

22. Zogby is considered one of the better pollsters

Why is it humourous to discuss his results?

Is it because of the bad results in California? If you take his track record from 1992 on up it is decent. I wound't disregard all of his work based on the CA result.

[DemGa]

18. He hasn't been touched by the negative attacks yet

You may discount that, but it is a reality.

[TexasObserver]

19. I've put Zogby on IGNORE since that California fiasco altered the expectations.

He missed that by 25 points, so he's officially on my shit list.

How can you trust anything he says when he misses it that badly?

I don't doubt that the things in the OP stated are probably correct, but someone other than Zogby will have to report it.

[NJSecularist]

23. Zogby has a horrible record this primary season

They are terrible.

SurveyUSA is the bible for me right now.

[TexasObserver]

29. Zogby is right on this one, though.

[amborin]

26. ha ha, said obama would win by 13% in California also ha ha ha

[jackson_dem]

27. Zogby: Kerry far more electable

Zogby: Bush far more electable
Zogby: Dukakis far more electable

[BootinUp]

28. Barack has gotten a free ride this far from the repukes

all these numbers will change drastically in a real campaign against the opposition.

[Karmadillo]

30. Zogby? What? No animal entrails to inspect today?

nt

[AtomicKitten]

31. Obama has CONSISTENTLY polled better against the GOP.