Gallup, 7/26: Obama 48%, McCain 41%

[highplainsdem]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/109099/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Retains-Lead-48-41.aspx

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama has stretched his lead over John McCain among national registered voters to seven percentage points, 48% to 41%, in Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted July 23-25.

This represents a continuation of Obama's frontrunner position in Gallup's Friday report, when he led McCain by six points, 47% to 41%. Earlier this week, Obama and McCain were separated by just two to four points, but that was before the extensive U.S. news coverage of the last leg of Obama's foreign tour. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.)

Obama's particularly large leads over McCain in Friday and Saturday's tracking suggest that the massive publicity surrounding Obama's speech at the Victory Tower in Berlin on Friday -- the only major public event of the trip -- and coverage of Obama's meetings with the heads of state in France and Britain may have tilted U.S. voter preferences more in his favor.

Notably, Obama's current seven-point lead over McCain ties his widest since the start of Gallup Poll Daily tracking of the general election in early March, and was achieved only once previously. He led McCain by seven points immediately after Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign for the Democratic nomination in early June. However, that proved to be a short-lived bounce, with Obama holding a six- to seven-point lead for only three days before it dropped back to two to three points.

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[tridim]

1. I bet Rasmussen's next poll will have McCain ahead by 1 point.

Never underestimate the Fudge Haus/cheese aisle bump.

[bunnies]

2. And dont forget the applesauce attack sympathy bump.

Double whammy!

[FreakinDJ]

3. No - Nancy Pelosie's "Impeachment off the Table"

Will have McCain ahead by 2 points

Because personally I'll stay home

[Kolesar]

5. All this sadness must be tearing you apart

[FreakinDJ]

6. Not really - just waiting for the Republicans to teath them a lesson

once again

I'll go on record here and now

If the Dem leadership continues to make a mockery of Impeachment proceedings and upholding their sworn duty to office, Obama Will Not Win in Novermber!

6 points don't mean shit when the Republicans still have in place all the mechanisims they need to steal the election once again

But if that is what it takes then so be it

[tridim]

11. 6 points nationally is a massive landslide win

And Obama is outperforming that 6 point national lead state by state. He will win by an even more massive electoral vote landslide.

[FreakinDJ]

12. We thought the same about Kerry this time 4 yrs ago

but as the election neared so did the poling results - and I guess you know the rest

[tridim]

13. Well yes, but Kerry was running against a dictator with unlimited wiretap powers.

Obama is running against Grandpa.

[FreakinDJ]

15. As if Grampy McSame is not privy to those same wire taps

Come on - think for a second....

Do you really think Bush wants to take the fall for all this shit he caused. He wants Grampy McSame to cover the exits as him and Cheney make their get away. Sure Gramps takes the fall for some of the shit, but who said he wasn't a chump for sucking up to the jerks who slammed him so hard in the 2000 elections.

Besides there is still plenty of tax payer money left to be made in Iraq (and possibly Iran) and the contractors will reward their boy with plenty of campaign contributions and 527 contributions for his cause.

Without the FULL support of Liberals and Dems (plus a good appointment of swing voters) Obama doesn't stand a chance.

And with Impeachment Off the Table your bleeding Liberals and ain't going to get the Swing Voters

You guys are Losers - I'm outta here

[27inCali]

14. feel free to be total fucking defeatist

Not everyone is obsessed with Impeachment even if deep in our hearts we wish we could.

There are a lot of us who would of loved to get that SOB impeached, but it may be just as useful for the next administration to investigate in retrospect, which has already been promised by Obama.

Why should we take out on Obama the fact that Pelosi and Reid suck?

SO you want to lose?

Can you please then, just go away a let the rest of us who want to win do our own thing without your self-righteous proclamations of doom?.

[FreakinDJ]

16. Thinking victory ain't gonna get it

You need the Liberals and the Swing Voters and without impeachment you guys just look like just more of the same

[applegrove]

4. Whoohoo!

:woohoo:

[mvd]

7. Great to see the bounce

I hope this is the defining moment where there is no return for McSame.

[Carrieyazel]

8. The European trip coverage has paid huge dividends. But its almost over,

so expect the national numbers to go back where they were after he gets back, when the media slams Obama for being "presumptuous" and not visiting the troops.

[mucifer]

9. I wonder what it would be if they factored in barr.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. And Nader.

I think Nader will help Obama this election because most of Nader's support is anti-Obama and will vote for McCain, but when you factor in Nader, they switch over and support him.

With Nader and Barr, I bet Gallup's poll would look like this:

Obama: 54
McCain: 38
Barr: 5
Nader: 2
Undecided/Someone else: 1%