How Will Arab-Americans Be Voting Tomorrow?
This guest post comes from a fellow “What’s Happening” co-host, Suzan, who was on the show when we interviewed researchers on the recent Zogby Poll forecasting Arab-American voting trends for Big Tuesday: Poll shows that Obama leads McCain by a three-to-one margin among Arab-Americans (or.. Obama earns greatest support ever recorded for a Presidential candidate among Arab American voters.) A recent Zogby International poll suggests that Senator Obama leads Senator McCain by a three-to-one margin among Arab Americans in both the two-way match-up and the four-way match-up. Obama earns the greatest support ever recorded for a Presidential candidate among Arab American voters. In the two-way race, Obama leads 64/23, while in the four-way race (adding Barr and Nader), Obama leads 62/22. The poll projects that 68% of Arab American voters will vote for Obama on Election Day. These findings may be significant because 30% of Arab American voters live in five battleground states – Michigan, Flor