CBS Poll: Obama Surges Ahead Nationally

[Holly_Hobby]

CBS News/NY Times Survey Finds Obama Opens Up 16-Point Lead; Also Leads In Head-To-Head Match Up With McCain

(CBS) A new CBS News/New York Times poll finds Barack Obama with a 16-point lead over rival Hillary Clinton among Democratic primary voters nationwide. Obama, coming off 11 straight primary and caucus victories, had the support of 54 percent of Democratic primary voters nationally. Clinton had 38 percent support.

In a CBS News poll taken three weeks ago, shortly before Super Tuesday, Obama and Clinton were tied at 41 percent. Clinton led by 15 points nationally in January. The former first lady has lost her advantage among women, according to the poll: The two leading Democrats now have even levels of support among female primary voters. Men, meanwhile, disproportionately favor Obama. He leads Clinton among male Democratic primary voters 67 percent to 28 percent, and leads among white men 61 percent to 33 percent. Fifty-nine percent of Democratic primary voters said Obama has the best chance of beating likely Republican nominee John McCain in the general election. Twenty-eight percent said Clinton is most likely to win in November.

Obama is now seen as the likely Democratic nominee: More than two-thirds of Democratic primary voters said they expect the Illinois senator to win the nomination. When all registered voters were asked who they favored in a head-to-head general election match up between Obama and McCain, Obama led by 12 percentage points, 50 to 38 percent. In a Clinton-McCain match up, registered voters were evenly split, with 46 percent backing each candidate. Obama beats McCain by 10 points among independents, while McCain beats Clinton by 17 points among that group.

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But Democratic primary voters were more likely to identify Obama as someone who cares about them "a lot" (63 percent for Obama vs. 46 percent for Clinton), someone who makes them feel inspired about the future (69 percent for Obama vs. 54 percent for Clinton), someone who would compromise the right amount with Republicans to get things done (67 percent for Obama vs. 55 percent for Clinton), and someone who could bring change to Washington (70 percent for Obama vs. 60 percent for Clinton).

More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/25/opinion/polls/main3874915.shtml

[thesubstanceofdreams]

1. Why are you posting a February 25 story?????????

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[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. Feb. 25, 2008

[democrattotheend]

3. That's three weeks old

Get my hopes up, why don't you?

Obama was up big in most of the national polls at that time. Things have changed since then :(

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. I'm an Obama supporter, but this is a disgraceful and deceptive post

This poll is from before Texas and Ohio, and has nothing to do with the current state of affairs.

So, were you just sloppy, or are you a total liar?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Breaking News- Muhammad Ali Regains Heavyweight Title

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/mailer-ali.pdf

[BooScout]

6. Want me to drag out a poll a couple of months old.....

Just to balance things out?:eyes:

And what idiots just nominated this to the greatest?

[stop the bleeding]

7. ***BREAKING*** The Wheel

:beer:

[npincus]

8. yeah, I don't get posting an old poll.

[LadyVT]

9. FEBRUARY 25th???

[RiverStone]

10. Call it a mistake and delete...

Maybe you did not realize it was from 3 weeks ago. Now that you know, better to delete your OP.

Thanks :hi:

[ruggerson]

11. Breaking **** Eve arrested for violating agricultural regulations, Adam in seclusion***

[AlGore-08.com]

12. "This just in: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."

[cbayer]

13. Not only is it three weeks old

it's based on data collected three weeks before that.

Weird OP.

As to the recommendations,that doesn't surprise me a bit. Some people recommend on the title alone. They never even look at the post.

This just proves it.

[Umbram]

18. Some people rec posts they feel worthy of ridicule.

Which has always seemed odd to me.

[cbayer]

19. Sometimes it's hard to tell if something is satire

or, perhaps in this case, some kind of psychological trick!

But it does now have 7 recommendations. Go figure.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

14. Guess the surge is working!

[BootinUp]

15. And also: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalissimo_Francisco_Franco_is_still_dead

[AlGore-08.com]

16. Jinx! -- n/t

[BootinUp]

17. mine has an informative link for

the kids. :)