Obama leads McCain nationally in AP-Ipsos poll (party affiliation, voters, Democrats)

[blacknight04]

WASHINGTON - Solid margins among women, minorities and young voters have powered Barack Obama to a 6 percentage point lead over John McCain in the presidential race, according to a poll released Tuesday.

McCain, the senator from Arizona, is leading by 10 points among whites and is even with Obama among men, groups with whom Republicans traditionally do well in national elections.

Obama leads McCain nationally in AP-Ipsos poll - Yahoo! News (broken link)

Slowly but surely, Obama is pulling away. He's also leading McCain by 4 points in the gallup tracking poll.

[sanrene]

Not that I think polls mean anything;

This has 15% MORE democrats than republicans. It appears that is the only way to get a poll with obama leading.

http://surveys.ap.org/data/Ipsos/nat...%20Topline.pdf

[jmarquise]

hey, polls do mean something, and they are often taken by the smartest of americans.

Originally Posted by sanrene

Not that I think polls mean anything;

This has 15% MORE democrats than republicans. It appears that is the only way to get a poll with obama leading.

http://surveys.ap.org/data/Ipsos/nat...%20Topline.pdf

[xavierob82]

Originally Posted by sanrene

Not that I think polls mean anything;

This has 15% MORE democrats than republicans. It appears that is the only way to get a poll with obama leading.

http://surveys.ap.org/data/Ipsos/nat...%20Topline.pdf

Most polls these days--even Rasmussen--have more Democrats polled than Republicans.

Why? Because there are more self-identified Democrats in America these days than Republicans. So even a "random" sample of Americans will give you more Democrats than Republicans.

[sanrene]

But not 15% more. I think rasmussen has a 9% gap. Gallup doesn't publish it's party affiliation in polls unfortunately.

So I guess that means quite a few democrats are voting for McCain?