When �leaners� are included, it�s Obama 52% to 42%. This is the sixth Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Oregon for Election 2008, and the Republican has never been closer than six points behind. Four times, Obama has enjoyed an eight-to-10 point lead, and once he was up by 14.
Obama is viewed favorably by 56% of Oregon voters, down six points from a month ago. McCain earns favorable reviews from 54%, down a single point.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of voters say the United States and its allies are winning the War on Terror while 21% say the terrorists are winning. That assessment is similar to the national average.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) say it is more important to find new sources of energy than to reduce the amount of energy Americans consume. Thirty-three percent (33%) disagree and say reducing consumption is more important. Those figures, too, are similar to the national average. Men: Obama 45, McCain 37. Women: Obama 52, McCain 30. In Battleground Oregon, 3 Months Out, Obama 3 Atop McCain: In an election for President of the United States in Oregon today, 08/06/08, three months till votes are counted, Barack Obama edges John McCain 48% to 45%, within the survey's 4.0 percentage point margin of sampling error, according to this SurveyUSA pre-election poll conducted exclusively for KATU-TV Portland. Obama leads by 13 points in greater Portland; McCain leads by 14 in the rest of the state. Among voters younger than Obama, Obama leads by 15 points.Among voters older than McCain, Obama leads by 9. Among voters who are inbetween the ages of the two candidates, McCain leads by 9. McCain holds 82% of the GOP base.Obama holds 80% of the Democrat base.Independents split.McCain is backed by 80% of conservatives.Obama is backed by 83% of liberals. Moderates break 5:3 for Obama. McCain leads 2:1 among those who attend religious services regularly.Obama leads 2:1 among those who almost never attend religious services. Among men, McCain leads by 5 points. Among women, Obama leads by 13. In Oregon, Barack Obama leads John McCain 46% to 37%, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey. These results are virtually identical to those from a month ago. When �leaners� are included, it�s Obama 49%, McCain 40%.
These results mark the fourth time in five statewide polls this year that Obama has enjoyed a lead ranging from six to nine percentage points. Once, enjoying a bounce from his participation in Oregon�s Democratic Presidential Primary, he opened a fourteen point lead. Nationally, the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll continues to show Barack Obama holding a modest lead over John McCain.
Obama is viewed favorably by 62% of Oregon voters, McCain by 55%. For both men, that�s an improvement over the past month.
As with their West Coast neighbors in Washington and California, Oregon voters are less enthusiastic about offshore oil drilling than voters in the rest of the country. Just 51% support offshore oil drilling and only 47% support drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. These figures are below the national average. . . .
