WI: Obama up 13 points on McCain in first post-Clinton prez poll
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In the inaugural UW Dept. of Political Science/WisPolitics.com survey, taken immediately after Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign, Barack Obama leads John McCain by 13 percentage points in the Badger state.
The survey of 506 randomly selected probable voters was conducted by phone from June 8- June 10 under the direction of Charles Franklin and Ken Goldstein from the University of Wisconsin Department of Political Science. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
Consistent with evidence from other national surveys, the study paints a picture of a hostile political environment in the swing state of Wisconsin for Republicans in 2008. Eight in 10 Wisconsin voters think the country is going in the wrong direction, President George W. Bush has a favorability rating of only 30 percent, 66 percent believe that the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, and the top two issue concerns are the economy and getting U.S. soldiers out of Iraq.
See the full UW Department of Political Science/WisPolitics.com poll
Read the press release on presidential race results
Read the press release on other state results
Listen to a WisPolitics.com luncheon with Goldstein and Franklin
