Obama’s polling figures reach historic levels
Some very encouraging – nay, pretty amazing – polling news:
“Barack Obama, the first black major party nominee, is positioned to win the largest share of white voters of any Democrat in more than three decade… 44 percent of non-Hispanic white voters presently support Obama — the highest number for a Democrat since 47 percent of whites backed Jimmy Carter in 1976.
…No Democrat has won a majority of white voters since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. John McCain has shuffled between 48 percent and 50 percent support in recent weeks — which would be the lowest share for a Republican candidate in a two-man race since Barry Goldwater’s run.
If Obama’s share holds, it would top the 43 percent of white voters who backed Bill Clinton in 1996.”
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