New poll shows solid lead for Obama

A new national poll released Friday gives a big lead to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

A CBS-New York Times Poll taken this week gives the Democrats a 13-point lead, 52 percent to 39 percent over John McCain and Sarah
Palin.
   
The lead narrows to 11 points if Bob Barr and Ralph Nader are excluded.

More than two-thirds of voters surveyed feel Barack Obama could work well with members of the opposing party.

More than half say he is prepared for the job of president, and almost half are confident he could handle an international crisis.

But more than half of McCain’s supporters say they are scared of an Obama presidency.

Obama leads McCain by 20 points among those who have already voted, and the number of those surveyed who say Palin is not prepared to be vice president increased from 50
percent to 59 percent in the last month.
   
The poll of 1,005 likely voters has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.