Barack Obama's European bounce

The Democrat's seven-point edge is the strongest since Hillary Clinton quit.
Posted July 26, 2008

The Swamp (Chicago Tribune blog)

by Mark Silva

Berlin and Paris were good for Barack Obama.

Democrat Obama's apparent advantage over Republican John McCain in national polling has "stretched'' to seven percentage points, according to the latest results of the Gallup daily tracking poll - a survey taken at the height of Obama's widely watched march across Europe, days in which he polled strongly against McCain.

The junior senator from Illinois draws the support of 48 percent of those surveyed in the latest Gallup track, a three-day rolling average of interviews conducted Wednesday through Friday, as Obama was touring Berlin and Paris (Obama is pictured here with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in an AP photo). McCain's 41 percent-support in the survey matches his low for the month in the daily Gallup track.