Poll: Obama Holds Huge Advantage Over McCain On Energy

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Poll: Obama Holds Huge Advantage Over McCain On Energy


By Greg Sargent - June 24, 2008, 1:00PM

A new Gallup poll finds that Obama holds a huge and striking advantage over McCain on which is more trusted to handle energy issues.

And not only that, it also finds that energy policy, by one measure, has now become the number one concern of voters.

The poll finds that Obama leads McCain by 19 points (47%-28%) on the question of who would do a better job handling energy policy, including gas prices. It also finds that 51% say that energy and gas prices are "extremely important" in determining their vote, higher than the economy (49%) or Iraq (44%).

It's worth pointing out that energy policy is central to McCain's strategy -- pushing an energy plan has emerged as one of the key ways in which he's hoping to achieve separation from Bush and the GOP.

However effective that larger effort may prove, on the straight-up question of which candidate is more trusted to handle the actual specifics of energy policy, Obama is simply crushing McCain.

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Energy is a huge topic, arguably the most important topic given it's impact on the economy and environment, and long overdue for action.

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