Final USA Today/Gallup 2008 predicts Barack Obama will be elected the 44th president

The final USA Today/Gallup 2008 pre-election poll predicts Barack Obama will be elected the 44th president of the United States, as he holds a 55% to 44% advantage over John McCain in the allocated estimate of the 2008 presidential vote.
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Gallup Daily: Obama’s Lead Edges to 11%

Gallup Poll Daily tracking now gives Barack Obama an 11 percentage point lead over John McCain in the presidential vote preferences of all registered voters, 52% to 41%.
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CBS/NYT Poll: Obama by 14%

The jawdropping numbers from the CBS News / New York Times poll are, yes, the top-line…Obama leads among likely voters 53% to 39%.  But more than that: which candidate will raise your taxes? Respondents, by 51% to 46%, say it’s McCain.  (Why? One reason might be Obama’s advertising, which claims that McCain’s health care plan [...]

Obama leads McCain among youth

Some voters under 30 are conservatives. An equal number are liberals. But a striking majority of the Millennial generation agrees on one thing: who should be the next president.
A USA TODAY/MTV/Gallup Poll of registered voters 18 to 29 years old shows Democrat Barack Obama leading Republican John McCain by 61%-32%, the most lopsided contest within [...]

Poll: Economic Woes Give Obama 9-Point Lead

Financial turmoil and growing pessimism about the national economy have hit the presidential race, giving Democratic nominee Barack Obama the first clear lead over Republican John McCain, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News national poll.

New Iowa poll: Romney, Clinton lead, Rudy a poor fourth

Some interesting results from the first Rasmussen Reports poll out of Iowa today:
Mitt Romney still leads the Republican field by six points (25%) while Hillary Clinton leads her Democratic competitors (33%) by nearly twice as much, 11 points.
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Poll Finds G.O.P. Field Isn’t Touching Voters

 Three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Republican voters across the country appear uninspired by their field of presidential candidates, with a vast majority saying they have not made a final decision about whom to support, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Not one of the Republican candidates is viewed favorably by even half [...]

Poll: Clinton Leading in Iowa

THE NUMBERS
Hillary Rodham Clinton, 31 percent
Barack Obama, 26 percent
John Edwards, 19 percent
Bill Richardson, 10 percent
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OF INTEREST:
Clinton and Obama are in a statistical tie among likely Democratic voters in the state, whose Jan. 3 caucuses will open the voting in the 2008 presidential campaign. Clinton has only a slight lead among women, a group she usually [...]