AP-Yahoo Poll: Obama overtaking Clinton despite bruises

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080418/D9047C8G0.html

Apr 18, 6:18 AM (ET)

By CHARLES BABINGTON and TREVOR TOMPSON

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are both sustaining dents and dings from their lengthy presidential fight. The former first lady is clearly suffering more as Democratic voters no longer see her as the party's strongest contender for the White House.

Voters of all types have gotten a better sense of Obama, who was an obscure Illinois legislator just four years ago. As more people moved from the "I don't know him" category in an AP-Yahoo News poll, more rated Obama as inexperienced, unethical and dishonest. And 15 percent erroneously think he's a Muslim, thanks in part to disinformation widely spread on the Internet.


Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a rally at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.,Thursday, April 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)


But Obama's positive ratings have climbed as well, while Clinton - widely known since the early 1990s - has been less able to change people's views of her. And when those views have shifted, it has hurt her more than helped.

The New York senator's ratings for being honest, likable, ethical and refreshing have fallen since January, and Obama scores higher than she does in all those categories.

In a dramatic reversal, the AP-Yahoo News poll found that a clear majority of Democratic voters now say Obama has the better chance of defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in November.

In late January, before Obama scored 11 straight primary and caucus victories, 56 percent of Democrats saw Clinton as the stronger nominee, compared with 33 percent for Obama. Now, Obama leads on that question, 56 percent to 43 percent.

FULL story at link.

[futureliveshere]

1. More and more people are looking at the Clinton negativity bus as the bus-to-nowhere!!

This coupled with todays NYT story of SDs unaffected by recent Clinton arguments is fatal for her.

[SpiralHawk]

2. You got it. I used to like Hillary, but she has caused me to sour completely

Her petty negativity has caused her to lose this voter.

[futureliveshere]

4. Yup..me too.. I loved the way the first Clinton ran his govt and hoped for the same from her.

[bowens43]

17. That would be the only weapon she would have against McCain

and it would work as well with McCain as has with Obama. She just doesn't get it. America is tired of her kind of politics.

[Catch22Dem]

3. More writing on the wall that this thing is drawing to a close

Or at least SHOULD be. WTF is up with the 15 percent of knuckledragging, carkey ear-cleaning, ig-nit rubes who think he's a Muslim? That's a huge number!

[NJmaverick]

5. The problem was she was frustrated by the fact that her positives

had a very low upper ceiling, while Obama could easily exceed that limit. So she went super negative, only to find her own low positive ceiling drop even lower. She was in a no win situation and she decided suicide/murder was a better solution than gracefully conceeding.

[Window]

6. K/R.

:kick:

[BobRossi]

7. Impossible.

All day yesterday I read post after post that Hillarious had already won the nomination. ><

[MagickMuffin]

8. Presenting the Next President of the United States

Barack Obama

[Zachstar]

9. The bottom is falling out of the Clinton Campaign

The question is where will it bottom out. (With her exit)

PA or May 6? Or beyond?

[Eurobabe]

12. I think the bottom

fell out awhile ago. :rofl:

[DrFunkenstein]

10. "strong, honest and refreshing" Vs. "brash, rude" and entitled

More fun stuff from the article:


Among those Democrats who no longer consider her the more electable of the two, most now see her as less likable, decisive, strong, honest, experienced and ethical than they did in January.

Meanwhile, those same voters are more likely to see Obama as strong, honest and refreshing than before.

Beulah Barton of Leesburg, Fla., said she initially backed Clinton, partly because she liked Bill Clinton's record as president.

"But the more I hear her talk, and the more I hear him talk, the more put off I am," said Barton, 69. "I think she's brash, I think she's rude. I get the feeling that she feels she deserves to be president" and doesn't need "to earn it."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080418/ap_on_el_pr/ap_yahoo_poll_obama_gains_4

[Eurobabe]

11. Go, go Barack!

I love reading stories like this. :woohoo:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. nice link to "exposed" about Obama from your article page...........

...http://www.humanevents.com/offers/offer.php?id=bho101

[phrigndumass]

15. You mean in the "Google Sponsored Links"?? ROFL!

Leave it to you to post a link to: "Human Events(tm).com, Leading the Conservative Movement * Since 1944"

[bowens43]

18. New York loves Hillary?

Good because they're going to get to keep her.

[catgirl]

14. Great!

[kevinmc]

16. If you want to live in the 19th Century vote for McCain ... 20th Century vote for Clinton ....

If you want to live in the 21st Century vote for Obama.

[phrigndumass]

19. Kick

[Scurrilous]

20. K & R

:thumbsup: