McCain beats Obama and Clinton while Romney gets crushed
January 28, 2008Hard evidence that John McCain is more electable than Mitt Romney
Adding together the six polls conducted this month that match up John McCain with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (Hart and McInturff, LA Times/Bloomberg, Gallup, Financial Dynamics, Zogby and Opinion Research) and weighting them by their sample size, produces the following results:
John McCain 47.50 Hillary Clinton 45.84 (5,397 voters, MOE 1.36%)
John McCain 45.86 Barack Obama 44.19 (5,397 voters, MOE 1.36%)
against:
Doing the same for the five polls that match up Mitt Romney with Clinton and Obama (Hart and McInturff, LA Times/Bloomberg, Financial Dynamics, Zogby and Opinion Research) produces:
Mitt Romney 37.77 Hillary Clinton 51.76 (3,799 voters, MOE 1.62%)
Mitt Romney 34.87 Barack Obama 53.32 (3,799 voters, MOE 1.62%)
The results pretty much speak for themselves.
