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McCain leads Obama 48 to 44 in AP-GfK poll
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The Associated Press reports McCain leads Obama 48% to 44% in the new AP-GfK Poll of likely voters.
My favorite findings from this poll:
1) 47% say Obama lacks the proper experience. That's much worse than the 36% who had the same criticism about Governor Palin.
2) Half believe McCain would chart a different path from Bush, including a slight majority of independents, indicating the Democrats' efforts to tie McCain to Bush aren't succeeding.
According to the poll, McCain has decisive advantages among suburban and working-class whites and a huge edge in how people rate each candidate's experience:
McCain leads Obama by 55 percent to 37 percent among whites. That includes comfortable leads of 24 points with suburban whites and 26 points with whites who haven't finished college, and has similar advantages with white men and whites who are married.
He also leads by 23 points among rural voters and by 13 points with voters age 65 and over.
Obama leads 61 percent to 35 percent among voters under age 30. He has about a 5-to-1 edge with minorities and a narrow 5-point lead with women, though he trails among white women 53 percent to 40 percent.
Eighty percent say McCain, with nearly three decades in Congress, has the right experience to be president. Just 46 percent say Obama, now in his fourth year in the Senate, is experienced enough.
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Asked to choose between a presidential candidate with solid experience and another whose values and views they support, two-thirds picked the latter. While those preferring experience overwhelmingly back McCain, people seeking agreement with a contender's values say they'll back Obama over McCain, 56 percent to 38 percent.
The poll was conducted September 5-10, and has margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percent for the entire sample and 3.4 points for likely voters.
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