FOX News Poll: Obama Leads McCain, 49% to 40%

[brooklynite]

Source: Fox News

Less than two weeks before Election Day, Barack Obama leads John McCain 49 percent to 40 percent among likely voters, according to a FOX News poll released Wednesday.

Obama's advantage comes mainly from independents, and from the fact that more voters identify themselves as Democrats these days and almost all of them back their party's nominee.

Eighty-eight percent of Democrats support Obama, and 83 percent of Republicans back McCain. Independents break 44 percent to 35 percent in Obama's favor.

In addition to independents, white Catholics are another important swing voting group and they support Obama 50 percent to 39 percent. White Catholics have voted for the winner in each of the last four presidential elections.

Read more: http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/22/fox-newsrasmussen-reports-poll-obama-leads-mccain/

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No "McCain gaining ground" headline? Fox must be joining the "Lberal Media Elite"...

[TwilightGardener]

1. As a white Catholic, this is welcome news!

[VaYallaDawg]

4. Make that two of us! n/t

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

2. Fox is gonna' have to fire somebody!

They're not doing their job very well (-- of steering the vote to the Republicans).

[rch35]

3. but...but... AP said the race is tightened! nt

[droidamus2]

5. Can you believe this?

This link, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27324419/, is to an AP story that claims there is a poll showing this as a 1 percentage point race. The claim is that after the 3rd debate all of McCains people came back to him because of what a great job he did and despite what all the other polls are this is basically a tossup. Gee, of course that ignores that it is not McCains people (read right wing conservatives) that are going to win him this race it would be a sizable number of independents and maybe even some conservative Democrats he would need to win). It ignores that fact that pretty much every poll said that people felt Obama did better in that debate than McCain ususally by a wide margin. Of course it also ignores that most current polls show it to be anywhere from a 5% to a 14% race in Obamas favor. Could it be that there is some bias to the AP wire?

[goforit]

6. A hard reality for Fox ?

[NightHawk63]

7. If Fox is saying 9 points...

... its really gotta be at least double that number. :kick:

[beac]

8. 83 percent of Republicans back McCain??

I find that number shockingly high. I would have guessed it would be in the low seventies based on what I hear and see amongst Republicans I know who are HORRIFIED by Palin.

[Indenturedebtor]

9. WHOA!!! Faux noos is saying something true?

Everyone call your family and say your peace... it's the end of the world.

[Kalifornia.Kid]

10. FOX takes it in the butt today so they can keep reporting the noise tomorrow

[noonwitch]

11. It looks like FOX's pollsters are more fair than their commentators

I'm liking this poll.

[livelongandprosper]

12. The one who wins the Catholic vote always wins

I don't why that is but that is

[last_texas_dem]

13. Go Fox News!

(Hey, I thought it might be fun to say that one time in my life. haha)

[AlinPA]

14. This is a joke, right?

[BlueStateMind]

15. FOX said this?

Fox, as in FOX News, right?

Slobbering Republican Retard fox?

you sure it wasn't Michael J. Fox or Bud Fox or even the ghost of Red Fox?