Big Clinton wins don't boost her in national poll

[book_worm]

Sen. Hillary Clinton's significant wins in Texas and Ohio primaries on Tuesday haven't translated into noticeable momentum for her in Gallup's latest tracking poll.

As a result of polling that ended last night, Gallup says Sen. Barack Obama holds a statistically insignificant two-point lead over Clinton, with Obama being the preferred candidate of 47 percent of respondents and Clinton getting 45 percent support.

As Gallup's report puts it:



Clinton gained on Obama in the days leading up to last week's March 4 primary voting, but her successful showing -- winning three of the four elections held that day -- failed to boost her candidacy nationally.

Obama had a solid victory in Saturday's Wyoming caucuses, winning 61% of the vote and more than half of the delegates. Any impact this might have on national Democratic preferences will not enter the three-day rolling averages in Gallup Poll Daily tracking until Monday's report.



Neither candidate has broken through the clouds to ascend to the 50-percent plus range since mid-February, according to Gallup. That's an indication that the race is likely to remain deadlocked unless an accord is reached, if ever, on what to do about Florida and Michigan's delegates.

And even that wouldn't guarantee that the race would break decisively one way or another in terms of pledged delegates for either Clinton or Obama.

All of which gets us back to the superdelegate scenario and the possibility of a fight at the Denver convention in late August should the campaigns and Democratic National Committee be unable to reach a resolution by then. It could be a long, hot summer.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/big_clinton_wins_dont_boost_he.html

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. er

INSIGNIFICANT WINS. She's still behind by 600k votes and 155 delegates.

[flor de jasmim]

2. Big win in TX? She's behind in the delegates!