Obama lead over McCain steady at 8 percent, new poll shows


"Barack Obama maintains a sizeable lead over John McCain in the presidential race, according to the latest Gallup daily tracking poll.

The poll, which had McCain ahead in the race just weeks ago, and has shown a close race through much of the summer, now indicates that registered voters are favoring Obama over McCain by a 50 percent to 42 percent margin.

The latest tracking poll would take into account initial reactions to Friday's debate, as well as Sarah Palin's recent interview with Katie Couric. It would also take into account the building, dire, financial credit news, though not the failure of the bailout bill on first vote.

Now, as always, it's a poll, national, not state by state, it is still September, etc... Lot's of reasons not to read too much into any poll.

But, this is the second day in which Obama has attracted 50 percent support, a rare number for either candidate to reach in this race. These numbers would indicate that the number of undecided voters is 8 percent. the polls margin for error is +/- 2 percent, so the results are outside that margin."

(Kansas City Star)