A new CNN poll in advance of the March 4th Texas primary shows Barack Obama within two points of Hillary Clinton:
A new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll suggests the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination between Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois is a statistical dead heat in Texas, which holds primaries March 4.
In the survey, out Monday, 50 percent of likely Democratic primary voters support Clinton as their choice for the party’s nominee, with 48 percent backing Obama.
But taking into account the poll’s sampling error of plus or minus 4½ percentage points for Democratic respondents, the race is a virtual tie.
If this holds true, then it would seem to show that at least one half of Hillary TexOhio firewall may be failing.
On the Republican side, the poll shows John McCain with a solid lead:
Among Republicans, 55 percent of likely Texas GOP primary voters support McCain as their choice for nominee. Thirty-two percent back former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and 11 percent support home-state congressman and former Libertarian standard-bearer Ron Paul. The poll’s sampling error for Republican respondents is 4 percentage points.
I think we’re seeing fairly clearly that any chance Huckabee had of actually winning in Texas is pretty much dead.
