Voters looking for “new ideas and a new direction’’ say they’d prefer Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain by a wide margin.
Voters more focused on experience in the next president prefer McCain over Obama by three-to-one, and McCain over Sen. Hillary Clinton by two-to-one.
These divides help frame the “roadmap’’ of a presidential election contest between McCain and whomever wins the Democratic Party’s nomination, according to a survey run by ABC News and the Washington Post. And it sounds like new direction is trumping experience.
The poll – the first of many more to come in the months ahead – shows Obama favored over McCain by a margin of 52 percent to 40 percent in a potential matchup. It shows Clinton favored over McCain by a margin of 50 percent to 44 percent. It was run Feb. 28-March 2.
“There’s huge polarization in these choices,’’ the poll report notes. Seventy percent of the Republicans surveyed call strength and experience more imporant. Sixty percent of Democrats are more concerned about finding a new direction.
And new direction outweighs experience by 47-38 percent among those swing-voting independent voters who may decide this one.
For more, see the full report.
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