45 days, 10 hours, 32 minutes ago
Poll: Obama holds slight lead over McCain
Associated Press
Relates to: Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney

THE RACE: The presidential race nationally

THE NUMBERS:

Democrat Barack Obama, 40 percent

Republican John McCain, 37 percent

OF INTEREST:

Independents are basically split between the candidates 32 percent favor Obama and 30 percent back McCain. Obama's lead over McCain is 9 percentage points if Hillary Rodham Clinton were to join him on the Democratic ticket and if Mitt Romney were to become McCain's running mate. Given the same veep scenario, 10 percent of voters say they don't know how they would vote. When asked who they believed would win the election regardless of who they plan to vote for Obama is named more than McCain by nearly two-to-one.

The Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll was conducted July 22-23 and involved telephone interviews with 900 registered voters. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Of those questioned, 378 were Democrats, which had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5 percentage points; 300 were Republicans, which had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 6 percentage points. There were 167 independents, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 8 percentage points.

COMPLETE RESULTS:


Leave a comment

Login or Signup to Comment




Other Popular Stories

Palin raises hope for parents of disabled kids
Polishing off his strawberry-banana yogurt, Jacob Moore races to his keyboard with a whoop, picks his way through "Pop Goes the Weasel" and gives his mom a high five. This is the average stuff of childhood, and it has not come easily to the 8-year-old with Down syndrome. For his mother, Heidi...
Relates to John McCain, Sarah Palin
Bush hosts last T-ball game of his term
With only about four months left in office, President Bush hosted his last T-ball game on the South Lawn Sunday, ending a tradition he's carried on for seven years. For Sunday's matchup, the 20th and final game in the series, the president and first lady Laura Bush invited sons and daughters of...
Relates to George W. Bush, Robert Gates, Laura Bush