Less than 2 weeks left in the presidential race, Obama holds a 13 point lead over McCain with Registered voters. This is consistent with other polls released this week including Pew, ABC/WaPo, CBS/NYT polls all show double digit leads.
This poll shows that Obama's level of support remains over 50% as the last Newsweek poll in which Obama was ahead to McCain 52% to 41%.
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According to this poll, Obama is consolidating his support among many demographic groups.
He now leads McCain in every age group, even among voters 65 and older, who choose him over McCain 48 percent to 42 percent. He leads handily among men, 52 percent to 42 percent, and among women, 54 percent to 39 percent. He now leads McCain by 46 percent to 44 percent among working class whites, a dramatic reversal from April, when McCain led him in that group 53 percent to 35 percent.
Obama has higher favorability than McCain:
A large majority of voters in the survey, 62 percent, now say they have a favorable view of Obama, versus 32 percent who have an unfavorable view. That's actually a small improvement, within the margin of error, for Obama over two weeks ago, when his favorable/unfavorable ratio was 60/36. By contrast, 50 percent of voters now say they have a favorable view of McCain, while 44 percent say they have an unfavorable view, a result that is basically unchanged from two weeks ago, when 51 percent had a favorable view of the Republican candidate and 45 had an unfavorable view.
This poll also shows that Palin is a drag on the McCain/Palin ticket. In the first time in the Newsweek poll, Palin has higher unfavorables than favorables (46% unfavorable, 44% favorable)