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Sacramentans, Placer, Yolo and El Dorado Strongly Support Obama

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Sacramentans strongly support Obama in election
July 11, 2008

A majority of Sacramentans have stated they will vote for Senator Barack Obama for president of the United States, according to a recently-released Sacramento State survey. While 52 percent would vote for Senator Obama, 35 percent stated they would vote for Senator John McCain and 12 percent did not yet know for whom they would cast their vote.

The survey, conducted by Sacramento State professor Amy Liu and her students through the Institute for Social Research, was taken in late February and early March. Area residents were asked for whom they would vote if Obama and McCain receive the nod from their respective parties.

In addition, residents were asked about the issues they will take into account when they head to the polls this November. The economy (22 percent) and the war in Iraq (20 percent) are the two most important issues. However, Republicans are more concerned about national security and terrorism (12 percent) than health care (5 percent), while Democrats feel health care (15 percent) is a more important issue than security and terrorism (2 percent).

Obama is favored by area residents who find the economy (61 percent vs. 26 percent) and affordable health care (63 percent vs. 25 percent) to be big problems and who believe the war is not worth it (70 percent vs. 18 percent). McCain draws a great deal of support from those who are deeply concerned about national security and terrorism (79 percent vs. 12 percent), border control and immigration (54 percent vs. 31 percent) and who think the war is worthwhile (71 percent vs. 17 percent).

Other findings include:
• While 52 percent of residents support Obama, he is favored to a greater extent by Hispanics (64 percent) and other non-white residents (66 percent), those age 40 or younger (61 percent), those with college degrees(58 percent) and women (56 percent).
• Fully 80 percent of Democrats say they would favor Obama, while 68 percent of Republicans favor McCain.
• Area residents who believe the U.S. should set a timetable to withdraw troops from Iraq are more likely to vote for Obama (73 percent) than McCain (18 percent). On the other hand, McCain draws a great deal of support from those who believe we should keep our troops in Iraq until we have achieved our goal there (66 percent for McCain vs. 20 percent for Obama).
• More Republicans would vote for Obama (22 percent) than Democrats would vote for McCain (11 percent). Independents and those with other party affiliations would choose Obama (50 percent) over McCain (34 percent).

The survey was a computer-assisted telephone survey of 1,200 randomly selected adults from Sacramento, Yolo, Placer and El Dorado counties. It has a margin of error of 3 percent

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