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Rasmussen To Stop Asking About Hillary

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

National polling firm Rasmussen Reports announced on Friday that it will stop polling people about the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton because her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, will win the Democratic nomination.

The company’s vice president of finance and operations, Michael Boniello, distributed an e-mail stating that after 19 months of tracking the Democratic race, it is now clear that Clinton will remain a close second.

Coincidentally, Rasmussen shows a big post NC/IN bounce for Obama in their latest polling…

n the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, Obama holds a 50% to 42% advantage over Clinton nationally. Thatâ€™s the first time Obama has reached the 50% level of support since April 15.

Obama leads Clinton by twenty-one points among those who use the Internet daily or nearly every day. Clinton leads among those who are less likely to be online.

There are, of course, still a few remaining Primaries to play out in the long-running process for the Democratic Nomination. Next weekâ€™s contest is in West Virginia where Clinton has a huge lead. The week after, Obama leads in Oregon while Clinton has a huge advantage in Kentucky. Expectations that Obama will be the Democratic nominee have risen sharply in the past couple of days. Just before Tuesdayâ€™s Primaries, Rasmussen Markets data gave Obama a 73% chance of winning the Democratic nomination. The most recent results give Obama a 89.9 % chance of emerging victorious (these results are updated on a 24/7 basis by market participants).

Yes, it’s not technically over…but it’s damn close.

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One Response to “Rasmussen To Stop Asking About Hillary”

david Says:
May 9th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Wow. Just wow. I really don’t know how else to react to this headline. It makes me squirm a little. With joy.

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