emocrat Barack Obama’s lead over Republican rival John McCain has dropped to 5 points, a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll has suggested.
Obama leads McCain by 49 percent to 44 percent in the daily tracking poll, which surveyed 1,203 likely US voters and has a margin of error of 2.9 points, Reuters reported.
In a tracking poll, the most recent day’s results are added, while the oldest day’s results are dropped to monitor changing momentum. Obama had a lead of 12 percentage points over McCain on Thursday.
The Illinois senator has a substantial lead of over 70 points among voters making less than $35,000 a year, while McCain now holds slight leads among voters in all income groups starting at $35,000 and above.
An Obama supporter during a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada
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Obama’s lead among independents dropped from a peak of 29 points to 14 points. Women also still backed Obama by a 14-point margin, down from 20 points late last week.
Among male voters, McCain has turned a 4-point deficit to a 4-point lead at 48-44 percent. Whites also back McCain by a 12-point margin, up from 6 points on Friday.
"Things are trending back for McCain. His numbers are rising and Obama’s are dropping on a daily basis. There seems to be a direct correlation between this and McCain talking about the economy," pollster John Zogby said.
While the Arizona senator warned voters on Saturday of dangers of what he termed a Democratic take-over in both the White House and Congress, Obama reiterated at a campaign stop in Nevada that McCain would be an economic clone of President George W. Bush.
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