Clinton, Obama in close Super Tuesday races

[CreekDog]

Source: Reuters via Yahoo



By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent 34 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are running neck-and-neck in California, New Jersey and Missouri two days before the sprawling "Super Tuesday" presidential showdown, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Sunday.

Obama has a slight lead in California and is virtually tied with Clinton in New Jersey and Missouri heading into the biggest day of voting in a U.S. presidential nominating campaign, with contests in 24 states from coast to coast.

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Obama, an Illinois senator who would be the first black U.S. president, has a comfortable 20-point lead in Georgia fueled by a more than 3-to-1 advantage over Clinton among black voters.

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The Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby tracking poll surveyed the presidential races in both parties in California, New Jersey and Missouri. The polls, taken Thursday through Saturday, also included the Republican race in New York and the Democratic race in Georgia. Polling will continue through Monday.

CLINTON, OBAMA RUN CLOSE

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In California, the poll found Obama led Clinton by 45 percent to 41 percent, with a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points. Clinton held statistically insignificant 1-point leads on Obama in New Jersey and Missouri, well within the margin of error of 3.4 percentage points in both surveys.

Both candidates have established a strong base of support and are holding on to it ahead of Tuesday's voting, the poll found. Clinton leads among women, Hispanics and elderly voters. Obama leads among blacks, men and young voters.

...Democrats distribute delegates in proportion to their vote statewide and in individual congressional districts. That means candidates can come away with big chunks of delegates even in states they lose.

As a result, neither Obama nor Clinton are likely to deal a knockout blow on Tuesday, prolonging their battle for the nomination to later contests in February, or to March and beyond.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080203/pl_nm/usa_politics_poll_dc

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This appears to be traditional phone polling rather than the often criticized "Zogby Interactive" that relies on internet polling.

[Bicoastal]

1. This is BREAKING NEWS? LOL.

Understatement of the year as far as I'm concerned. This election season will be one for the history books....

[John Q. Citizen]

2. It is indeed historic.

[David Zephyr]

3. K&R. Hillary had a 24 point lead here in California. It's now gone.

Amazing.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. I'm a little concerned by the lack of aggressive campaigning by the Republicans

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Are they gonna steal the Presidency again?

McCain sure doesn't look like a good choice,

and I don't see any other Republicans competing much.

I think the PNAC gang have a surprise for us

They are not gonna let go of the reigns of power without some sort of fight.

And they do have a reputation for fighting dirty.

It's gonna be a long stressful year until a new President is in down there.

More pointedly,

until the present President is OUT!!

[Pharlo]

5. My guess is

They KNOW they've f**ked this country up so badly, they don't really WANT to have to be associated with what is going to happen as of Jan 2009. They are just trying to hold on to things until then so they can blame a Democratic administration. That would be my guess.