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The Gallup poll conducted from June 5 to 9 showed that the Illinois Senator was supported by 51 percent of women voters, compared to 38 percent for his Republican rival, Arizona Senator John McCain.
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Presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) greets supporters on stage during a campaign rally in Bristow, Virginia June 5, 2008. Obama picked up more support from women voters soon after his decisive win in the presidential nomination race, according to a poll released on Wednesday. |
The Gallup said that many older and married women voters shifted their support from Obama's former rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to him was a reason to explain his surge.
The matchup of McCain and Obama in winning the support from married women voters was used to be 52-40, but now changed to 45-45, according to the polling body.
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate and Senator John McCain gives a thumbs up to supporters before he gave a foreign policy speech in Denver, Colorado May 27, 2008. |
"Indeed, his current 13-point advantage over McCain is essentially the same advantage that Clinton held over McCain throughout her active candidacy."
Obama also saw his popularity growing among male voters.
In a newest Gallup poll, McCain's lead over Obama in male votes by 47 to 45 percent, compared to 49 to 43 percent in an earlier poll.