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Poll: Obama Leads By 7 In North Carolina

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

This the latest Mason Dixon poll shows him slipping for a double digit lead as a result from fallout about Wright. The contest now stands at Obama/Clinton, 49/42 with 9% undecided.

From WRAL:

A WRAL news poll released Wednesday shows Barack Obama’s double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton among Tar heel Democrats is eroding.

Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. surveyed 400 likely Democratic voters Monday and Tuesday. The results show Obama with a 7 point lead over Clinton, with 9 percent undecided. The poll has a margin of error of 5 percentage points.

“Right or wrong, it’s the Wright phenomenon for Obama,” said David McLennan, a political science professor at Peace College.

McLennan said Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is dragging down the Illinois senator. Wright has made comments such as suggesting that the AIDS virus was invented by the government to destroy “people of color.”

The thing I’m noticing about North Carolina is how the polls are acting a lot like the ones out of Pennsylvania. I guess we’ll see if that assumption is correct soon enough.

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2 Responses to “Poll: Obama Leads By 7 In North Carolina”

mw Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 11:06 am
The demographics are different, and I think there was a bigger undecided at a comparable stage in PA. I do think that , like PA, most of the undecided will break for Clinton (65-70%?), but just don’t think there are enough undecided left for her to win it. I’m expecting an Obama win in the 5% range. Not sure how the supes will react to that.
Avinash_tyagi Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 11:14 am
Depends on how well he does in Indiana, if both races are around 5% one for Obama the other for Hillary, then it becomes a problem for Clinton, but a few things, first Guam votes this weekend, and we need to see the effect from the Wright denunciation and the gas tax issue, if voters realize Obama is being honest and McCsame and Billary are pandering, then expect him to make out great on the 6th

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