Here are the latest results from the Connecticut poll by Hartford Courant published on USAElectionPolls.com:
There were 502 voters polled on 10/18-22.
| Hartford Courant Date: 10/18-22 Connecticut Added: 10/27/08 |
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| Barack Obama | 56% |
| John McCain | 31% |
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Overall, Democrats now outnumber Republicans by 750,999 to 418,431. Unaffiliated voters number 845,311.Obama, a liberal first-term Illinois senator who would be the nation's first black president, is seen as a better ideological match than McCain with Connecticut voters, the Courant poll found.
Obama's positions on the issues were seen as "about right" by 55 percent of voters, compared with 33 percent for McCain.
McCain, an Arizona senator who won the state's Republican primary in 2000 and 2008, when he portrayed himself as a maverick and independent of the religious right, was seen as too conservative by half the voters and too liberal by 10 percent.
Obama, who won the Democratic primary in February with 51 percent of the vote, was described as too conservative by 3 percent of voters and too liberal by 37 percent.
The poll found Obama to be the overwhelming choice of voters who had supported Hillary Clinton in the primary, 81 percent to 7 percent.
Asked to name the one quality most important to them, more voters (25 percent) chose the ability to "bring about change" than any other attribute, echoing a key theme of the Obama campaign.
"Has experience," a grade on which McCain hopes to prevail, was fifth most important in Connecticut, chosen by just 11 percent.
As other surveys have found, no issue comes close to the economy as a priority of voters, who have watched the Wall Street meltdown send the stocks of Connecticut employers tumbling.
