{"id":490,"date":"2008-04-04T19:40:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/04\/new-polls-give-obama-edge-amon.html"},"modified":"2008-04-04T19:40:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:40:26","slug":"new-polls-give-obama-edge-amon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/04\/new-polls-give-obama-edge-amon.html","title":{"rendered":"New Polls Give Obama Edge Among Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"obama08.jpg\"Barack Obama’s Faith Outreach Director just sent this email alert about new faith and values polling to Obama’s religious supporters:<\/p>\n

New polling this week shows that Barack Obama\u2019s character and leadership on American values are having an impact with voters across the country of all parties and backgrounds.
\nFirst, yesterday\u2019s CBS \/ New York Times poll:
\nDo you think [candidate] shares the values most Americans try to live by, or doesn’t (s)he?
\nObama 70%
\nMcCain 66%
\nClinton 60%
\nAnd second, yesterday\u2019s poll from Christianity Today, a well-respected magazine with a conservative Evangelical readership:
\nWhich candidate do you support?
\nJohn McCain 50%
\nBarack Obama 31%
\nOther 8%
\nHillary Clinton 7%
\nRon Paul 4%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

God-o-Meter couldn’t find an explanation of Christianity Today’s methodology on its web site (the Obama campaign provided this link<\/a>) and so wonders how representative its sample is of the evangelical universe. After all, a handful of primary state polls<\/a> conducted by Faith in Public Life show that Hillary Clinton enjoys a considerable lead among white evangelical Democratic voters. Could it be that CT’s readers skew left?<\/p>\n


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