Obama gets high marks on credit crisis
More Pennsylvanians approved of his response, poll shows.
By Scott Kraus | Of The Morning Call
October 4, 2008
With the dust still settling on a bailout, Barack Obama's response to the Wall Street credit crisis appears to have helped the Democrat open up a lead over Republican John McCain in Pennsylvania.
Obama earned higher marks than McCain in a Muhlenberg College/Morning Call poll of 597 likely voters in the key swing state taken from Tuesday through Friday.
Forty-three percent approved of Obama's handling of the crisis, compared with 29 percent who approved of McCain's response. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Obama's overall lead in the poll has increased from 4 points to 12 points in the last nine days, hitting 51 percent to McCain's 39 percent on Friday.
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