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New Poll Shows Arab-Americans Favor Obama over McCain in Presidential Race

Voice of America
Posted on Friday October 31, 2008

By Mohamed Elshinnawi
Washington
26 September 2008

A new nationwide poll shows that among likely Arab-American voters in November’s U.S. presidential election, Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama holds a 21-point lead over Republican candidate Sen. John McCain. Mohamed Elshinnawi has more on what pollsters are calling an historic shift among Arab-Americans toward the Democratic Party.

Arab-American voters align very closely with other Americans on domestic issues such as the economy, jobs, health care and education. But an opinion survey by the private polling group Zogby International found that dissatisfaction with the domestic and foreign policyperformance of the Bush administration is eroding the Republican Party base among a majority of Arab-American voters.

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