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Gallup: Obama Leads By 9

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

Is he finally breaking away? Are voters finally accepting reality? Because after yesterday, when the margin was only 4, it’s shot up 5 points.

The details…

Obama’s current nine percentage point lead is based on a strong showing for the Illinois senator in Gallup’s Friday night interviewing. For the past few days, news coverage of Election 2008 has been dominated by the back and forth between Obama and the presumptive Republican nominee John McCain regarding various comments and positions on dealing with Iran and Hamas in the Middle East, and attempts by Obama to underscore the link between McCain and President Bush.

Also implicit in this news coverage has been the assumption that Obama will be the Democratic nominee, with much less news coverage of Clinton — despite the fact that she continues to campaign against Obama as Tuesday’s primary voting in Kentucky and Oregon approaches. Some news accounts suggest that Obama may “declare victory” after the voting next Tuesday.

More tomorrow…

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 17th, 2008 and is filed under 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, Polls. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Gallup: Obama Leads By 9”

Avinash_Tyagi Says:
May 18th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Actually more today, this is the data from the 17th, yesterday, that you are posting

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