CNN poll: Obama up 7, McCain criticisms aren't sticking

[EV_Ares]

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll today shows Democrat Barack Obama leading Republican John McCain 51%-44% among registered voters. CNN says that's similar to Obama's 5-percentage-point lead last month and shows his high-profile trip overseas did not shake up the race.

CNN says McCain retains an an edge on every foreign policy issue asked about in the poll. The good news for Obama, it says, is that "few of the McCain campaign's criticisms of the trip have stuck — especially charges Obama was presumptuously acting as if he had already won the election, and claims he nixed a visit with injured troops because members of the media could not accompany him. Instead, more than two-thirds of voters surveyed said the trip was appropriate for a presidential candidate, and 72% think Obama cares about veterans and the troops currently in Iraq."

The poll, billed as the first to be taken since Obama got home Saturday, was conducted Sunday through Tuesday. It included interviews with 1,041 adults, of whom 914 were registered voters. The margin of error for both groups was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Mark reported earlier today on the Gallup tracking poll, which showed Obama ahead by 4 points.


Link: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/07/cnn-poll-obama.html

[skooooo]

1. McCain sounds like a grumpy old man...nt

[caledesi]

2. I agree! NT

[mucifer]

3. The polls are too soon to show the lies the press is involved in today and yesterday

[Youphemism]

4. Not very meaningful but still nice to see Obama breaking the 50% barrier...

...just to give one less thing for Pat Buchanan and his ilk to simper over.

[TheDonkey]

5. Where is da bump!? *Insert MSM concern trolling*

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