Update: Gallup's polling confirms that Clinton women are also migrating over to Obama.
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Obama Gaining Ground Among White Democrats
published June 11, 2008 12:14 pm
Right wing hicks will no doubt have conniptions over this:
Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has pulled even among white voters in New York State with Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, and now has a commanding overall lead over Mr. McCain, 50 percent to 36 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday. The survey suggests that New York remains a securely blue state, notwithstanding disappointment over the defeat of its home state senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, by Mr. Obama in the Democratic nominating contests.Mr. Obama, of Illinois, received 42 percent of white votes in the poll, compared with 43 percent for Mr. McCain, of Arizona. Black voters backed Mr. Obama, 87 percent to 6 percent, as did voters under age 45, 59 percent to 29 percent. Mr. Obama held similar, if smaller, majorities among voters over age 45 (45 percent to 40 percent), men (45 percent to 40 percent) and women (53 percent to 32 percent).
The last Quinnipiac poll, conducted in April when Senator Clinton was still in the race, found a lead of only 47 percent to 39 percent in a hypothetical Obama-McCain matchup. In that survey, white voters backed Mr. McCain, 48 percent to 38 percent, over Mr. Obama.
The new poll was conducted June 3-8 among 1,388 New York State voters. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Gee, it took what -- less than a week --- for Clinton Democrats to start moving decisively towards Obama?
Comments (3)
So the Democratic nominee is gaining support among Democrates ... wow ... what will he do next, Water to Whine ? Moonwalk across the stage ? Pull his head out of his a** ?
He's so SUPER GREEN :)
Right Wing Hick :)
1. Posted by Jeff | June 11, 2008 2:18 PM
Posted on June 11, 2008 14:18
There was some question as to whether Obama could gain back the Democrats that were super-loyal to Clinton. Since this poll was taken in New York (which by the way is where Clinton is from) it's significant that the poll shows signs that he can.
Jeff: "Right Wing Hick :)"
That was obvious from the way you spelled "Democrates", Jeff.
2. Posted by Lee Ward![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblue.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| June 11, 2008 2:58 PM
Posted on June 11, 2008 14:58
Lee... why are you so hate-filled? Really... name-calling? "right-wing hicks"??? Your writings are so venomous and your rants are based on emotion rather than fact and logical thought. I'm not going to bother reading Blue anymore. I thought this section on Wizbang! would give me a good perspective from the left, but it's turned out to be nothing but rabid, frothing at the mouth garbage that only shows the worst in Democrats.
3. Posted by AJ | June 11, 2008 6:01 PM
Posted on June 11, 2008 18:01