Looks like there’ll be a lot fewer Democrats in the office on Election Day.

Just one-out-of-five voters (20%) plans to take the day off from work or school today as Barack Obama has urged his supporters to do, but 35% of those who plan to vote for the Democrat will be among them. Obama wants them to devote that time to getting out the vote.

Ninety-four percent (94%) of likely voters for John McCain do not plan to take the day off, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Seventy-five percent (75%) of all voters don’t plan to take the day off, and five percent (5%) haven’t decided yet.

Twenty-three percent (23%) of men plan to be off on Election Day, compared to 17% of women. Forty-four percent (44%) of African-Americans plan to take the day off, while 81% of whites say they do not.

Even 21% of those who have already voted plan to be off today.

Nationally, Obama continues to hold a modest but steady lead in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll and in the Electoral College projections.

Final Fox News/Rasmussen polling in six key battleground states – Colorado, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia – will be released today.

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Fifty-three percent (53%) disagree with Obama’s call for his supporters to skip work or school on Election Day to get out the vote, while 35% agree with the Democratic candidate. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided.

Thirty-eight percent (38%) of men agree with Obama’s call, as do 32% of women. The older the voter, the less likely they are to support the idea of taking Election Day off for campaign work.

While 61% of African-American voters agree with Obama’s action, 62% of whites disagree.

Fifty-five percent (55%) do not believe that it’s a good idea to encourage people to take a day off in the current economic climate, while 30% think it’s fine. Fifteen percent (15%) aren’t sure. Fifty-five percent (55%) of liberals like the idea; 81% of conservatives don’t.

Obama’s call was outlined last week in a video on his website that quickly attracted media notice and jumped to YouTube. It urged supporters to take Election Day off from work to help the campaign.

Nearly half of voters like Election Day just the way it is. While 44% say Election Day should be a national holiday, 49% disagree. Younger voters are far more supportive of this idea than older voters. While 50% of voters ages 18-29 favor such a holiday, 61% of those 65 and older are opposed.

Democrats like the idea a lot more than Republicans. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Democratic voters support making Election Day a national holiday, but 72% of Republicans disagree. Unaffiliated voters are opposed to a holiday by a 13-point margin.

Forty-nine percent (49%) also don’t think Election Day should be moved to a weekend to make it more convenient for people to vote, even though 40% favor the idea.

Fifty-three percent (53%) of Democrats support moving Election Day to the weekend, compared to 28% of GOP voters. Sixty-three percent (63%) of Republicans are opposed versus 36% of Democrats. A majority of unaffiliated voters (52%) also reject the idea.

Those who have voted early are fairly evenly divided on whether Election Day should be a holiday or moved to the weekend. Over half of those who plan to vote as usual on Election Day are opposed to both ideas.

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