July 15, 2008 - 9:35am
Obama maintains national lead in latest Quinnipiac poll
By Alex RoartyU.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) maintains a 9 percentage point advantage over U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the national poll released Tuesday by Quinnipiac University, good news for the Obama camp after other polls released earlier this week indicated its advantage over the presumptive Republican nominee was slipping.
The poll reports Obama continues to enjoy nearly unanimous support from blacks, earning 94 percent of their support. McCain has advantage with men, 47 percent to 44 percent, and whites, 49 percent to 42 percent.
Obama continue to do well with 18- to 34-year-olds, winning 63 to 31 percent, and has a slight advantage with voters 35 to 54 years old, 48 percent to 44 percent. Voters over 55 split 45 percent for McCain and 44 percent for Obama.
"Sen. Barack Obama's national lead is solid -- but it's not monolithic," Maurice Carroll, director of Qunnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.
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I support Obama even though I was disappointed in his supporting FISA and opposing the Supreme Court decision about Child Rape. So Obama's move to the center may be a calculated tactical move: he may lose some support among his ideological left wingers -count me among them- but find new, albeit reluctant new recruits among the undecided and centrists. Who else am I going to vote for and waste my vote when we finally have a chance to elect a president who promises a policy different from the old fogies who want us to "stay the course" in Iraq, who support tax cuts for the rich and will favor diregarding our Constitution?
By the way: am 87 and white.
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