FOX Poll: Obama going to Denver with a 3-point lead over McCain

[Tender Branson]

Obama: 42%
McCain: 39%

What if the candidates for president were Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican John McCain?

Clinton: 46%
McCain: 43%

Polling was conducted by telephone August 19-20, 2008, in the evenings. The total sample is 900 registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of ±3 percentage points.

http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/082108Poll1.pdf

[Gustaf]

Faux News can't be trusted, their polling must be a joke and...oh, wait, OBAMA by 3. Never mind...

[Alcon]

It's kind of interesting how the Clinton/McCain match-up has fewer undecideds.

[J. J.]

It's kind of interesting how the Clinton/McCain match-up has fewer undecideds.

A lot of those undecideds are Hillary voters.

[Alcon]

It's kind of interesting how the Clinton/McCain match-up has fewer undecideds.

A lot of those undecideds are Hillary voters.

Probably, although McCain also loses 4%.  Sort of a strange results relative to past polling; usually I'd assume animosity decreases.

[Stranger in a strange land]

It's kind of interesting how the Clinton/McCain match-up has fewer undecideds.

A lot of those undecideds are Hillary voters.

Probably, although McCain also loses 4%.  Sort of a strange results relative to past polling; usually I'd assume animosity decreases.

maybe the whole thesis about Hillary being polarizing has some truth after all.

[Aizen]

Fox News likes to "award" McCain 5 points. Also, this poll failed to account for the youth cellphone factor. That's another 5 for Obama. So here is the updated, official results:



Obama: 47%
McCain: 34%

[Sam Spade]

It's kind of interesting how the Clinton/McCain match-up has fewer undecideds.

A lot of those undecideds are Hillary voters.

Probably, although McCain also loses 4%.  Sort of a strange results relative to past polling; usually I'd assume animosity decreases.

maybe the whole thesis about Hillary being polarizing has some truth after all.

Of course it does.  She's also a "known quantity."

[elcorazon]

Faux News can't be trusted, their polling must be a joke and...oh, wait, OBAMA by 3. Never mind...

Gustaf is swiftly getting into troll territory.

[Eraserhead]

Well, it's nice to see a poll where he actually improved his standing if nothing else.

[DownWithTheLeft]

For anyone who does not know, as far as I remember a Democrat (Pat Cadell) conducts FoxNews polls

[Rowan]

Fox News likes to "award" McCain 5 points. Also, this poll failed to account for the youth cellphone factor. That's another 5 for Obama. So here is the updated, official results:



Obama: 47%
McCain: 34%

This is just dumb. Seriously.

[Brittain33]

For anyone who does not know, as far as I remember a Democrat (Pat Cadell) conducts FoxNews polls

He's a Fox News Democrat, like Bernard Goldberg, who talks up JFK as a great President. Cadell worked on Jimmy Carter's campaign thirty-plus years ago but has been very critical of Democrats over the past couple of decades.

[Eraserhead]

Fox News likes to "award" McCain 5 points. Also, this poll failed to account for the youth cellphone factor. That's another 5 for Obama. So here is the updated, official results:



Obama: 47%
McCain: 34%

This is just dumb. Seriously.

It's also a joke.

[Democratic Hawk]

Well, it's an improvement on the previous FOX Poll, IIRC. Obama +1; McCain -1

Dave