Muhlenberg PA Poll: Obama (D) 47%, McCain (R) 43%

[Hope And Change]

Obama has slight lead over McCain in statewide poll

Daily survey: Dem scores well with voters on economy.

By Scott Kraus | Of The Morning Call

September 26, 2008

Fallout from the crisis on Wall Street appears to have propelled Barack Obama into a slight lead over John McCain in Pennsylvania.

Democrat Obama leads Republican McCain 47 percent to 43 percent in this key swing state, a new Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll shows. The survey, of 577 likely voters Sunday through Wednesday night, has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.

Fully 46 percent of respondents pointed to the ''economy/jobs'' as the most important issue in their decision on how to vote. And state voters express considerably more trust in Obama to handle fallout from Wall Street, 44 percent to 28 percent.

''He's being seen as someone who might be better equipped to deal with it,'' said pollster Chris Borick, director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion in Allentown.

Obama has appeared to voters as fairly steady in reacting to the financial crisis, Borick said, while McCain has taken dramatic action, announcing Wednesday that he was suspending his campaign until an agreement is reached on a bailout.


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[featherman]

1. Obama has never trailed a PA poll taken in the last 3 months (except for the weird Zogby Interactive