Zogby Poll Shows Obama/Powell Best Bet
A recent Zogby poll shows that among likely voters, Democrats, and independents 42%, 42%, and 43% respectively would be more likely to vote for Barack Obama if Colin Powell were his running mate. Coming in second was Hillary with 30%, 47%, 33% saying they would be more likely (but 25%, 15%, 26% less likely compared to 10%, 12%, and 9% less likely to vote for Obama with Powell as his running mate). Check out the rest of the poll’s results here.
Powell had this to say earlier about Obama’s experience:
“He doesn’t have experience at the senior levels of national government. But I’ve seen other individuals come along who didn’t have that breadth of experience and what they do is surround themselves with people who do bring that experience.
With Sen. Obama, he didn’t have a lot of experience running a presidential campaign, did he? But he seems to know how to organize a task and he seems to know how to apply resources to a problem at hand. So that gives me some indication that (with) his inexperience in foreign affairs or domestic affairs, he may be someone who can learn quickly.”
I think he’s fan.