Poll: Palin Boosts McCain in Florida

Thu, September 11, 2008 - 8:52 AM

The addition of Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket has helped John McCain to pull ahead of Democrat Barack Obama by 7 percentage points, a new Quinnipiac University poll shows.

The addition of Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket has helped John McCain to pull ahead of Democrat Barack Obama by 7 percentage points, a new Quinnipiac University poll shows.

The poll shows nearly one-fourth – 24 percent – of former Hillary Clinton supporters in the state now back McCain, up from 14 percent last month.

Overall, the polls shows 50 percent of Florida voters now favor McCain, to 43 percent for Obama.

Six out of 10 of the Florida voters said Palin, the Alaska governor, was a good pick as McCain’s vice presidential running mate.

The telephone poll of 1,032 likely Florida voters was conducted from Friday through Tuesday, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

-- Billy House