Poll: Obama Jumps To 12-Point National Lead Over McCain
Barack Obama has taken a big lead over John McCain in the new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, an indication that the presumptive Democratic nominee is benefitting from both party unity and the sheer unpopularity of the Republican nominee.
The numbers: Obama 49%, McCain 37%, well beyond the ±3% margin of error. This lends some corroboration to the Newsweek poll from last week that put it at 51%-36%, showing that it was not necessarily a total outlier.
Key internal number: Despite the talk during the primaries that Obama would suffer losses among white voters, he's in fact doing quite well -- he and McCain are tied at 39% each among white respondents in this poll. In the unlikely event that every last white undecided were to break for McCain, Obama would be almost where John Kerry was in 2004 exit polling.
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