Pew Poll: Advantage Obama

[kevinmc]

Pew (complete report here, .pdf):






Other findings

* A majority of voters (55%) give Obama a grade of A or B for convincing them to vote for him. That is a higher grade than for any Democratic or Republican candidate in the past three campaigns. By contrast, just 32% give McCain a grade of A or B.

* A small but stable minority of voters (12%) of voters believe that Obama is a Muslim. That is about the same percentage that said Obama was a Muslim in March (10%).

* Most Democratic and Democratic-leaning women voters (60%) want Obama to choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate. But voters who supported Obama in the Democratic primaries remain cool to this idea.

* A quarter of liberal Democrats say they have contributed money to a presidential candidate in the past year, about double the proportion of conservative Republicans who have donated (13%).

* Democrats who favored Clinton for the nomination remain critical of Obama. Just 35% say he is more personally qualified than McCain to be president; former Clinton supporters are split as to whether McCain or Obama could better deal with terrorist threats.

* Conservative Republican voters are decidedly less optimistic about their party’s chances in the fall than they were just a few months ago. Just 49% say McCain is mostly likely to win, down from 71% in April.

Bottom line: Obama hasn’t reached his ceiling yet, but it’s not so clear that’s true for McCain.............

[dtotire]

1. In Previous Polls

Pew asked a question of voters to give in one word, what their opinion of Bush. Last year, the highest response was "incompent". Other responses were less complimentary, like stupid or idiot. Only about a quarter were favorable. I guess he didn't ask that question this year.