Pollster Scott Rasmussen '86 Has Yet to See Convention Bounce for Barack Obama
Scott Rasmussen August 28, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - "More Republicans support McCain than Democrats support Obama," Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports and 1986 graduate of DePauw University, tells the Boston Herald. Rasmussen's latest national poll, updated daily, shows Democrat Barack Obama leading Republican John McCain by a slim point -- 45% to 44%. The two candidates are deadlocked at 47% each when voters who were leaning toward a candidate are factored in.
The Herald's Hillary Chabot writes, "Obama and McCain are neck and neck in the national polls despite three days of glowing speeches about the Illinois senator during a highly publicized convention...