Poll: Hill Leads By 5 In Pennsylvania, Obama Leads By 5 In Indiana
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, Indiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, PollsAlso, he leads by 13 in North Carolina.
Here are the numbers:
Pennsylvania
Clinton 46, Obama 41Indiana
Obama 40, Clinton 35North Carolina
Obama 47, Clinton 34
Also, LA Times has some realities about BitterGate and RevWrightGate:
In Pennsylvania, the flap seems to have marginally helped Obama more than hurt him: 24% said his handling of the issue made them think more highly of him; 15% said it made them think less highly of him; 58% said it made no difference in their views.Many Democratic voters, however, see Obama’s association with Wright as posing a problem for him in the general election — 46% in Pennsylvania said they expected it to hamper him in a contest with presumptive Republican nominee John McCain; in Indiana, 47% agreed with that, and in North Carolina, 42%. [...]
In the follow-up interviews, some voters complained that the criticism of his pastor and the allegations that Obama is elitist are sideshows.
“All this back-and-forth is not really staying on the issues that I want to hear from” the White House candidates, said Joseph Robinson, a disabled worker in Lafayette, Ind. He was unmoved by Clinton’s charge that Obama, because of his small-town comment, had shown he was out of touch with many Americans.
More as it develops…
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April 15th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
PA 46+41=87 13% Undecided?
IN 40+35-75 25% Undecided?
NC 47+34=81 19% Undecided?
I believe that Obama will take NC handily. But in PA and IN, how the undecideds break at the end is far more telling than the day to day statistical fluctuations in the difference between them now. I expect that, like Ohio, they’ll break predominantly for Clinton.
I do find the high undecideds in NC surprising, though. Perhaps that will be closer than it looks now.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Polls are notoriously wrong, still I don’t see how Obama can lose the nomination unless he does something really boneheaded. That is possible but not likely.
As to the general election he will lose by a very large margin. He has alienated many of Clinton’s supporters, 26 percent say they will vote McCain. While Obama’s questionable associations with many slimy figures and his statements against god and guns has destroyed any chance he had of reaching accross the isle.
Not only that, by insulting religion and the second ammendment he pissed off the republican base. They were ambivalent about McCain before, now they will come out like locusts to make sure Obama never, ever shows his face again in a public forum.
The democratic party was a great force for good once. It is now just a shell of it’s former self and badly fractured. Hopefully the coming november disaster will finally force the democrats to reevaluate their positions and platform. To truly reach out and UNDERSTAND the people they have alienated for so long. That is the only positive thing the democrats can hope for now.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Obama was not codescending - he was stating a reality for many people, not all, in economically depressed towns. It had nothing to do with elitism. Unfortunately, a very intelligent and accomplished black man in this country is perceived as “uppity” by folks like the Clintons. Hillary and Bill have defined him as elitist and others have now called him a bigot. Perhaps this assuages their using race to try to win the election. The Clintons have been such a disappointment - how far Bill has fallen. Or perhaps he’s always been what many would call “white trash”.