More voters confident about Obama’s handling of fin crisis

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 2:10 am

Barack Obama, who aspires to be the first black President of the United States of America, continues to benefit from the economic turmoil with more Independent voters reassuring confidence in the Democrat’s handling of the crisis, a new poll shows.

In the poll conducted for Wall Street Journal/NBC News, when electoral were asked which candidate they would prefer to handle economic issues, a major concern for the Americans at present – more voters said they are “more reassured” by how Obama was responding to the financial crisis than McCain.

The poll shows that Obama has increased his lead to six points with 49 per cent of the registered voters saying they would vote for him compared with 43 per cent who prefer Republican candidate John McCain. The survey, conducted over the weekend, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.

“McCain has absorbed a very tough one-two punch — the financial crisis, then the debates. The two things have clearly led to a momentum shift in this campaign where Obama has started to slowly stretch his lead,” said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster who conducts the survey with Democratic pollster Peter D Hart.

Independent voters are among the most important voting blocs because many of them would consider voting for either candidate. In the Journal/NBC poll two weeks ago, independents favoured Senator McCain by 13 points. The new survey finds Senator Obama leading by four points.

(Agencies)

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More voters confident about Obama’s handling of fin crisis

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