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Obama up 2 in NBC/WSJ poll

 

Published 9/24/2008 by Mark Murray at First Read

From NBC's Mark MurrayAccording to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Obama leads McCain, 48-46 percent, which is virtually unchanged from our poll released after the political conventions, when Obama was ahead by one point, 47-46 percent. This two-point Obama lead is a much different result than what we saw in another recent poll, which had the Illinois Democrat up by a larger margin. The McCain campaign argued today that Democratic respondents outweighed...( read more ) (link)

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