http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5171928Oh my.
LulaMay (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-20-08 11:56 AM
Original message
Clinton Takes Significant Lead Over Obama: REUTERS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has moved into a significant lead over Barack Obama among Democratic voters, according to a new Gallup poll.
The March 14-18 national survey of 1,209 Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters gave Clinton, a New York senator, a 49 percent to 42 percent edge over Obama, an Illinois senator. The poll has an error margin of 3 percentage points.
The poll was a snapshot of current popular feeling, but Clinton trails Obama in the state-by-state contest which began in January to select a nominee to face presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in the November election to succeed President George W. Bush.
The nominees are formally chosen by delegates at the parties' conventions in the summer.
Gallup said the poll lead was the first statistically significant one for Clinton since a tracking poll conducted February 7-9, just after the Super Tuesday primaries. The two candidates had largely been locked in a statistical tie since then, with Obama last holding a lead over Clinton in a March 11-13 poll.
Gallup said polling data also showed McCain leading Obama 47 percent to 43 percent in 4,367 registered voters' preferences for the general election. The general election survey has an error margin of 2 percentage points.
The Arizona senator also edged Clinton 48 percent to 45 percent but Gallup said the lead was not statistically significant.
http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSN20378340...
Much teeth-gnashing among the Obamaites.
Dinger (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-20-08 11:58 AM
Response to Original message
1. Oh Oh, Somebody's Not Gonna Like This
And that somebody . . . .
isn't me!
trained specialist (4 posts) Thu Mar-20-08 12:03 PM
Response to Reply #1
15. Time for the BO Smear Machine to get going again.
UALRBSofL (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-20-08 12:15 PM
Response to Reply #15
33. trained specialist you have 3 posts and then suggest BO get his Smera Machine???
Hmmm that is not Obama's way. Me thinks you don't pass the sniff test and I believe many DUers know EXACTLY what I mean.
trained specialist (4 posts) Thu Mar-20-08 12:45 PM
Response to Reply #33
64. Not Obama's way, eh?
So he doesn't know a thing about what's going on both here and at Daily Kos?
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-20-08 11:58 AM
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2. Pre-speech poll... "Mar 14-18"...... watch what happens in the post-Mar-18 polls....
LulaMay (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-20-08 12:00 PM
Response to Reply #2
5. The 18th was the day of his speech
it's over.
Yeah, it probably is. There's probably going to be a few minor speed-bumps for Messalina Agrippina, but as franksolich predicted, Messalina Agrippina's going to be the One, and the Obamaite primitives might as well sit down, shut up, and accept it.
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-20-08 12:01 PM
Response to Reply #5
8. Yes..... only 1/4 of the respondents in the poll even had the ABILITY to be aware of it....
...so the poll doesn't really reflect the speech.
75% of the respondents were asked BEFORE the speech took place.
You really need to get a calendar and a math book and study a little.
It's a good bonfire, and kudos to the lulu primitive.
