Here are the latest results from the Michigan poll by Detroit Free Press by Selzer published on USAElectionPolls.com:
There were 602 voters polled on 9/22-24.
| Detroit Free Press by Selzer Date: 9/22-24 Michigan Added: 9/26/08 |
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| Barack Obama | 51% |
| John McCain | 38% |
| Bob Barr | 1% |
| Unsure | 10% |
Quote:
With the markets in distress, Washington policymakers scrambling to find a compromise bailout plan and taxpayers howling that they don’t want to be stuck with a $700 billion bill to help Wall Street financiers, Obama is reaping the benefit – so much so that Michigan could possibly be removed from the list of battleground states, even as the candidates have spent so much time in the state.Asked who is best able to fix the problems with the U.S. economy, Obama did even better than the head-to-head with McCain, 52% to 37% among the 602 likely voters polled from Monday to Wednesday of this week by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, Iowa. Asked which candidate was more likely to fight for the concerns most important to you and your family, 56% of respondents said Obama, compared to 36% for McCain.
The poll – which has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points for the overall sample – showed that half of the respondents believe the economy is in a recession and 24% that it is already in a depression. That should come as no surprise to Michiganders, the state having the nation’s largest unemployment rate at 8.9% in August as automakers and related businesses struggle to find bottom amid layoffs and closings.
