The latest Zogby/Reuters poll shows Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama with a 2 point lead over Sen. John McCain. Obama leads by 47 to 45 percent amongst likely voters. This is a marked turnaround as McCain led in this poll by 5% before the conventions in August.
The key issue to the change have been the economy, with Obama scoring significant gains amongst independents and women on that score.
Below is a snippet of the Reuters story covering that poll.
Democrat Barack Obama has a 2-point lead in the U.S. presidential race on Republican John McCain, whose choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate helped shore up support for both candidates, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
Obama leads McCain among likely voters by 47 percent to 45 percent, within the poll’s 3.1 percent margin of error. He gained ground in the last month among independent and women voters and on the question of who could best manage the faltering U.S. economy.
Obama wiped out McCain’s 5-point edge in a Reuters/Zogby poll taken in August before the nominating conventions, a sign the Arizona senator could be drifting back to earth from what other opinion polls showed was a post-convention surge.
“We’re back to where we always thought we would be — in a very competitive race,” pollster John Zogby said.
The poll, taken Thursday through Saturday, follows a hectic month in the race to the November 4 election as both parties held their nominating conventions and both candidates selected their vice presidential running mates.
McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin, an anti-abortion and pro-gun first-term governor from Alaska, as his No. 2 set off a political firestorm that helped stoke conservative enthusiasm for the Republican ticket.
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