While it will take time to determine just what kind of impact adding Joe Biden to the Democratic ticket has had on the race, at least one early poll found little enthusiasm and a possible problem for Barack Obama:
On the day that Barack Obama announced Joe Biden as his running mate, 39% of voters said he made the right choice. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 25% disagreed and another 35% are not sure.
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Overall, 32% said the selection of Biden made them more likely to vote for Obama and an identical percentage said it made them less likely to do so. Among unaffiliated voters, 25% are more likely to vote for Obama while 33% had the opposite view.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) say Biden is ready to be President while 35% disagree.
The more interesting numbers, though, come when the poll looked at female voters:
Women are notably less enthusiastic than men—33% of women say Biden was the right choice while 27% disagreed. Men, by a 46% to 24% margin, said that Obama made the right choice.
A possible sign of Hillary supporters feeling she got dissed ?
August 24th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
[...] with the Rasmussen poll I wrote about earlier, today’s Gallup tracking poll shows no evidence of a significant bump in the polls coming off [...]