| National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters | |||||||||||||||
| Conducted December 12-13, 2006 by Rasmussen Reports | |||||||||||||||
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Political Party | |||||||||||
| LV | Male | Female | 18-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-64 | 65 or older | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | ||
| General Election | McCain | 46% | 57% | 37% | 45% | 48% | 46% | 44% | 51% | 47% | 32% | 55% | 76% | 22% | 46% |
| Obama | 40% | 31% | 47% | 41% | 39% | 41% | 42% | 34% | 38% | 65% | 27% | 12% | 67% | 35% | |
| Some other candidate | 7% | 7% | 7% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 7% | 7% | 7% | 1% | 9% | 7% | 6% | 7% | |
| Not sure | 7% | 6% | 8% | 7% | 7% | 6% | 8% | 8% | 8% | 2% | 9% | 6% | 5% | 12% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Political Party | |||||||||||
| LV | Male | Female | 18-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-64 | 65 or older | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | ||
| General Election | McCain | 46% | 54% | 39% | 46% | 47% | 48% | 43% | 48% | 48% | 25% | 50% | 80% | 22% | 40% |
| Edwards | 41% | 34% | 48% | 50% | 41% | 39% | 40% | 40% | 39% | 64% | 36% | 8% | 73% | 37% | |
| Some other candidate | 7% | 8% | 6% | 1% | 6% | 8% | 10% | 6% | 7% | 7% | 6% | 8% | 3% | 11% | |
| Not sure | 6% | 4% | 7% | 2% | 5% | 6% | 8% | 6% | 6% | 4% | 8% | 5% | 3% | 12% | |