Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are tied nationally in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Clinton, a former first lady who would be the first woman U.S. president, held a 21-point edge over Obama in October. He cut that to 8 points by last month, and the new survey gave her a 39 percent to 38 percent edge.John Edwards was a distant third with nine percent in this national survey. This is interesting since in several national surveys, Edwards is the only one who beats every single Republican.
Her 1-point lead was well within the poll's margin of error of 4.7 percentage points.
Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president, and Clinton were essentially deadlocked among a variety of groups, including men, women, Democrats and independents. Obama led substantially, 65 percent to 15 percent, among black voters.
Obama barely led among voters under age 24, a substantial drop in support from last month, but led Clinton among voters aged 55 to 69, normally one of her strengths.
Can anybody remember a presidential campaign in which both sides were so lacking anything resembling a frontrunner? Wow.
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On another note, I realize that I have been posting very sporadically lately, and for those of you who come here looking for fresh content, I apologize. My day job has been a little heavy lately, and my computer at home was down for more than a week. Nothing makes your stomach hurt quite as much as hearing a guy in New Delhi tell you that you're going to have to reinstall your operating system. Ugh.
Anyhoo, I'm back, and hope to manage at least a couple of fresh posts a day moving forward. Thanks for sticking with me.
1 comments:
know what else is interesting? anytime folks are polled after watching kucinich versus the other yahoos- he comes out ahead. i can't imagine why they would want to keep him out of the national spotlight.
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