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FOX News Poll: In Key Decisions, Voters Would Prefer McCain's Advice
Friday, August 22, 2008
By Dana Blanton
Barack Obama and John McCain are in a tight race for the White House, but at this stage many voters are still undecided. In the latest FOX News poll, Obama has a slim three-percentage point edge over McCain (42 percent-39 percent), while nearly one of five voters is undecided.
These undecided voters will likely determine the presidential election outcome. So what do they feel in their guts about the two candidates? The FOX News poll tried to get at that question by asking: If you had to make the “toughest decision” of your life, who would you rather get advice from — Obama or McCain?
• Click here to view full results of the poll (pdf).
Based on that question, there are signs that undecided voters may be more inclined to move to McCain than to Obama. The largest number of undecideds – 38 percent – would rather get advice from McCain – that’s nearly three times as many as the 13 percent that would go to Obama. The remaining say “neither” (27 percent) or are unsure (18 percent).
Furthermore, independent voters pick McCain by a 15-point margin (41 percent – 26 percent).
As one would expect, most Obama voters — 78 percent — say they would go to him for advice. Similarly, fully 83 percent of McCain voters would consider him their trusted guru on a tough life decision.
While 68 percent of Democrats would go to Obama for advice, nearly one of five – 18 percent – would pick McCain. Most Republicans (74 percent) would go to McCain, with less than one in 10 saying they would pick Obama (7 percent).
Overall, slightly more voters say they would turn to McCain in this situation (43 percent to 37 percent Obama).
In such a tight race for the White House, where both candidates have positive favorable ratings and strong support from their party faithful, there are some troubling signs for Obama from undecided voters
Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from Aug. 19 to Aug. 20. The poll has a 3-point error margin.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409225,00.html
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Are polls reliable, or unreliable?
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Are polls reliable, or unreliable?
biased and unbiased but, they did show Obama lost more ground than any other presidential candiate in history.
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Funny pic. I just though I'd share the laughs:
(http://blogs.smh.com.au/whitehouse08/bushmccain.jpg)
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biased and unbiased but, they did show Obama lost more ground than any other presidential candiate in history.
I'm gonna have to ask you to document this. Show us the numbers.
How big was his lead against McCain?
I thought there were people up by 30 or 40 points in polls in decades past?
numbers, please!
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I'm gonna have to ask you to document this. Show us the numbers.
How big was his lead against McCain?
I thought there were people up by 30 or 40 points in polls in decades past?
numbers, please!
nah, no thanks.
They were posted all last week. Look them up on CNN
Re: Poll states from July to August. Then back check it with google, it's been on the news a few tiems as well. Dick Morris spoke about it.
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nah, no thanks.
They were posted all last week. Look them up on CNN
Re: Poll states from July to August. Then back check it with google, it's been on the news a few tiems as well. Dick Morris spoke about it.
100 days from the election Carter was ahead by 30 points. And he narrowly won.
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nah, no thanks.
They were posted all last week. Look them up on CNN
Re: Poll states from July to August. Then back check it with google, it's been on the news a few tiems as well. Dick Morris spoke about it.
You claimed it was the biggest drop in presidential history.
Are you taking that back now?
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A FOX news poll has a Republican winning???!!!!
Really???!!!!
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You claimed it was the biggest drop in presidential history.
Are you taking that back now?
no, im telling you to do your own research, use google.
my browser has already visited those pages, see if yours can.
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A FOX news poll has a Republican winning???!!!!
Really???!!!!
FOX News also got a supreme court decision in it's favour that said:
"journalists are under no obligation to tell the truth"
Isn't that a kick in the pants. :'(
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FOX News Poll: In Key Decisions, Voters Would Prefer McCain's Advice
Friday, August 22, 2008
By Dana Blanton
Barack Obama and John McCain are in a tight race for the White House, but at this stage many voters are still undecided. In the latest FOX News poll, Obama has a slim three-percentage point edge over McCain (42 percent-39 percent), while nearly one of five voters is undecided.
These undecided voters will likely determine the presidential election outcome. So what do they feel in their guts about the two candidates? The FOX News poll tried to get at that question by asking: If you had to make the “toughest decision” of your life, who would you rather get advice from — Obama or McCain?
• Click here to view full results of the poll (pdf).
Based on that question, there are signs that undecided voters may be more inclined to move to McCain than to Obama. The largest number of undecideds – 38 percent – would rather get advice from McCain – that’s nearly three times as many as the 13 percent that would go to Obama. The remaining say “neither” (27 percent) or are unsure (18 percent).
Furthermore, independent voters pick McCain by a 15-point margin (41 percent – 26 percent).
As one would expect, most Obama voters — 78 percent — say they would go to him for advice. Similarly, fully 83 percent of McCain voters would consider him their trusted guru on a tough life decision.
While 68 percent of Democrats would go to Obama for advice, nearly one of five – 18 percent – would pick McCain. Most Republicans (74 percent) would go to McCain, with less than one in 10 saying they would pick Obama (7 percent).
Overall, slightly more voters say they would turn to McCain in this situation (43 percent to 37 percent Obama).
In such a tight race for the White House, where both candidates have positive favorable ratings and strong support from their party faithful, there are some troubling signs for Obama from undecided voters
Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from Aug. 19 to Aug. 20. The poll has a 3-point error margin.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409225,00.html
lol foxnews.....
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Yeah. Hilarious. They couldn't possibly conduct a poll that isn't tainted. CNN or bust.
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CNN or bust.
lol
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no, im telling you to do your own research, use google.
my browser has already visited those pages, see if yours can.
I see.
You made a statement that Obama's poll collapse was the biggest in history.
Do you still stand by that?
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FOX NEWS, news for stupid people
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FOX NEWS, news for stupid people
So if say, CNN, MSNBC, or CBS had came out with the same poll you would accept it as the truth?
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FOX NEWS, news for stupid people
Very profound argument. You're a good example of people who have that opinion.
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Yeah. Hilarious. They couldn't possibly conduct a poll that isn't tainted. CNN or bust.
They do to a certain extent. But Fox, is, let's just say good at what they do
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more of what fox news does
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They do to a certain extent. But Fox, is, let's just say good at what they do
Yes they are good at balancing what we get from CNN.
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Yes they are good at balancing what we get from CNN.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
ok.