US women voters head to Obama after Clinton departure: poll (AFP)

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Between the eve of the final primaries on June 3 and Monday, Obama's support among aggregate women in polling matchups with Republican rival John McCain has jumped to give him a 13-point margin in this voter clump.

According to Gallup, in its surveys covering June 5-9, Obama was supported by 51 percent of women voters compared to 38 percent for McCain.

A week earlier, Obama topped McCain with just a 48-43 percent spread.

Gallup pointed out that Obama's support among women voters is now close to the steady 52 percent level Clinton had in earlier theoretical matchups with McCain, whom she led in this group by 12 points.

It before-mentioned that the shift of older and married women to Obama appeared to explain his surge.

Married women backed McCain 52-40 percent in the previous poll, and are after this evenly split 45-45 percent above the two.

Meanwhile unmarried women liked Obama by 57-32 percent and 57-31 percent in the earlier May 27-June 2 poll and the most recent lop, respectively.

"Now that Clinton is nay longer campaigning and the focus of voters' decision-making is a choice betwixt Obama and McCain, female voters may be taking a aid look at Obama," Gallup said.

"Indeed, his general 13-point advantage from hand to hand McCain is essentially the same advantage that Clinton held over McCain throughout her active candidacy."

Among male voters Obama also picked up ground in continuance McCain. McCain led his Democratic rival in the earlier individual by six points, 49-43 percent. In the newest poll, McCain maintained only a two-point spread, 47-45 percent.

The Gallup poll was conducted between May 27 and June 2 among 5,270 voters and has a two-point margin of misapprehension.

A Rasmussen Institute poll carried out June 7-9 shows that Obama is ahead of McCain by dint of. dint of. seven points, 50 percent against 43 percent.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal person to appear Thursday in the newspaper confirms the tendency in Obama's favor.

Forty-seven percent of those polled method to vote for Obama over against 41 percent that support McCain, a broader limit notwithstanding Obama when compared to the like poll in April (46-43 percent).

According to the poll, 54 percent of those surveyed believed "it is important to look for a person who faculty of volition bring greater changes to the current policies even if he is less amount experienced and tried," against 42 percent that supported a "more experienced and tested person even if he brings fewer changes to the passing from hand to hand policies."

And 59 percent said they believed it was "occasion to have a president who will focus on progress and helper instigate America forward," against 37 percent who said it was "period to have a president who will focus on protecting what has made America great."

The WSJ/NBC poll was conducted June 6-9 among 1,000 voters, and has a 3.1 point margin of error.

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