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Change Vs. Experience

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Hillary, Polls

Yep, change is winning again.

The ability to “bring needed change” beats “experience” as the most important quality in a candidate by about a 20-point margin in Ohio and by about 15 points in Texas, according to preliminary exit poll results.

So this should be good news for Obama, right?

Well…

Across all previous primaries this year, by contrast, “change” has beaten “experience” by 31 points.

Experience is finally cutting into the change message, but I really think it’s too late for Hillary at this point.

We shall see…

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