Obama up 2 in NBC/WSJ poll

Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:08 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC's Mark Murray
According to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Obama leads McCain, 48-46 percent, which is virtually unchanged from our poll released after the political conventions, when Obama was ahead by one point, 47-46 percent.

This two-point Obama lead is a much different result than what we saw in another recent poll, which had the Illinois Democrat up by a larger margin. The McCain campaign argued today that Democratic respondents outweighed Republican ones by 16 points in that poll’s sample. By comparison, the NBC/Journal poll has Democrats leading in party identification by just seven points.

Note: The 6:30 pm ET release for the poll was moved up due to today's news on the campaign trail. We'll have more on the poll shortly on MSNBC.com.

*** UPDATE *** Per Cillizza, the Washington Post's polling director responds "that the actual party ID numbers among likely voters had Democrats plus six points. It was only when people who offer no original party ID were asked whether they leaned one direction or the other that the number jumped to Democrats +16."

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You could save us all a lot of trouble if you would refer only to Real Clear Politics for a Polls average. How about the ABC/Wash Post poll that has Obama up by 9?!?!?

Martha D, Denver CO (Sent Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:52 PM)

John McCain has taken the correct action, this financial crisis will hit home in six months if we do not deal with it.
The bailout is 700 billion dollars, every year we import 770 billion dollars of energy which we do not have to import. We can turn coal into gasoline, stop the imports and create 50,000 new jobs just in Illinois. Check it out.

todd heyse (Sent Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:53 PM)

wHAT A sad state of affairs. McCain wants to play big shot and not debate. Reason is the financial criss and he needs to be involved. Funny how so many don't understand it but McCain (know to not be sharp on the economy) wants to charge back to Washington and do what ??? Gove me a break. I think the whole bunch need to be fired (Treasury, SEC, Congress, President - the whole lot). Who is looking after the people. Take down these bs polls and let's get some real servants of the people in place.

JerryT, Shreveport, LA (Sent Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:53 PM)

Will everyone stop with the Hype of pro-Obama Media?
The media is more pro McCain than Obama!!

The Myth of Pro-Obama Media Bias
Little evidence for self-proclaimed ‘lovefest’

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3612

Anita (Sent Friday, September 26, 2008 10:14 PM)

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