Obama expands lead in daily Gallup tracking poll (Palin fall out?)

[book_worm]

50-42 for Obama. Yesterday the 3-day tracking poll gave Obama a six-point lead.

Prior to now, no more than 49% of registered voters supported Obama for president in Gallup Poll Daily tracking. Still, Obama's eight percentage point lead over McCain in the new poll falls one point shy of the lead he attained in late July after returning from a well-publicized trip to Europe and parts of the Middle East. At that time, Obama led by nine points, 49% to 40%.

McCain's 42% support is well below his 48% top support level, recorded in late April/early May. It is just slightly better than the 40% he received at several points in July, and the 41% favoring him just last week while the Democratic National Convention was underway. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.)

At 8%, the percentage of undecided voters is slightly lower than the 9% to 11% figures seen for most of August, and this is the lowest this figure has been since early June. This, in part, reflects movement of voters toward Obama over the course of the Democratic National Convention, a lead which has been sustained in subsequent days.

The field period for today's results includes Monday (Labor Day), when the scaled down Republican National Convention received limited media attention while most news coverage either focused on the hurricane hitting parts of the Gulf Coast or Monday's surprise announcement that the 17-year-old daughter of the soon to be Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, is pregnant. The Republicans hope to start up a more traditional convention schedule today in St. Paul, with the goal of capturing the same kind of media and public attention the Democrats did last week in Denver. -- Lydia Saad

http://www.gallup.com/poll/109960/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Hits-50-First-Time.aspx

[TwilightGardener]

1. Thank God. Maybe people didn't fall for McLoon's shiny new toy.

[RufusTFirefly]

2. Pathetic

Am I the only one who thinks it's a scandal that Obama only has an 8-point lead?? Heaven knows there were plenty of reasons to fear a bellicose, addle-brained McCain presidency beforehand, but the Palin decision should've driven a stake into the heart of his campaign once and for all.

[Auggie]

3. I can't believe it either

[opihimoimoi]

4. McBimbos message of Incompetence and Poor Judgment has not sunk in yet...the Freepers are stubborn

[demosincebirth]

5. Any other democrat would be at least 10-15 points ahead

[book_worm]

6. Oh, you really think so? can you back it up?

of course you can't.

[demosincebirth]

7. The point I was trying to make was

that if he was white and not black he would be 10-15 ahead. Racism is in play in this election.

[secondwind]

8. We need to be pragmatic about this, because unfortunately,

there are folks who will NEVER vote for an African American. Take my word for it, I volunteered for Obama in PA last year, I think it was September, and we knocked on about 115 doors in four hours, and some of those folks plain out said "I am a bigot"