Arizona Poll: McCain: 38% Obama: 28% Undecided: 34%

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TEMPE, Ariz. - Putting Sen. Hillary Clinton on the ticket as his vice-presidential running mate could cost Sen. Barack Obama about 5 percentage points in Arizona, according to a new statewide Cronkite/Eight Poll conducted among registered voters June 20-21, 2008. When asked whether they would vote for Sen. John McCain or Obama, 38 percent said they would vote for McCain and 28 percent said they would vote for Obama 34 percent were undecided. When asked whether they would vote for McCain or an Obama/Clinton ticket, 47 percent said they would support McCain and 32 percent said they would choose the Obama/Clinton ticket 21 percent were undecided.

According to poll director Dr. Bruce Merrill, “Sen. McCain probably leads in Arizona by about 10 percentage points and will be hard to beat in his home state. He divides the independent vote in Arizona with Obama but appears to be attracting conservative Democrats to his campaign. There is an unusually high undecided vote but that is probably due to the fact that Democrats are still trying to sort out how they feel about the intense primary battle between Obama and Clinton. The poll also found that as expected, younger voters are voting heavily for Obama, while older voters strongly prefer McCain. No gender gap was found in Arizona, with women about evenly divided between the two presidential candidates.”

The Cronkite/Eight poll also found that most voters blame the legislature for the current impasse over the state budget. More than one-half of those interviewed (52 percent) said that the Legislature was to blame for the impasse, 19 percent said it was the governor’s fault, 13 percent said
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