GOP pollster says voters will shift to Obama over economy David Edwards and Nick Juliano

Published: Wednesday September 17, 2008





Print This Email This Republican pollster Frank Luntz says voters who had been shifting toward John McCain will begin shifting back toward Barack Obama over the next two days.



Luntz, who claimed credit for branding the "Contract With America" in 1994 and shifting debate over global warming to "climate change," has done polling and focus groups for the Fox News Channel this election cycle. He appeared on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning to discuss a recent focus group he did with Michigan voters.



The economic crisis that has gripped the country over the last few weeks is beginning to sink in with voters, who are craving "solutions" from the candidates, Luntz said.



"They've now personalized it to themselves," he told Fox's Brian Kilmeade. "It's not, 'What're you going to do about unemployment?' It's, 'What're you going to do to protect my job ... What're you giong to do to lower my gas prices? That's a significant change."



Kilmead noted that polls had been trending toward McCain, who benefited from an extended post-convention bounce, but Luntz noted that no extensive polling had been done since the Wall Street meltdown that's dominated headlines this week.



"I'm watching the polling and what's going to happen over the next 48 hours because I think you might see once again another shift," he said, noting that economic worries were infecting all sectors of the electorate. "I think -- having now lived this for 15 years in the mindset of the voters -- that it's going to trigger an even greater degree of change."



This video is from Fox's Fox & Friends, broadcast September 17, 2008.









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