The last time we saw a poll from Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton’s double digit lead had shrunk to four percentage points.
But that was during the height of Obama’s post-Super Tuesday surge, and things are different after Tuesday:
In Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton has opened a fifteen percentage point lead over Barack Obama. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows Clinton attracting 52% of the vote while Obama earns 37%.
In late February, before Clinton’s comeback victories in Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island, the former First Lady’s lead in the Keystone State was just four percentage points. The big difference between that poll and the current result is found a among men. Clinton now leads by seventeen percentage points among women and eleven among men. In the previous survey, she was ahead by fifteen points among women but trails by fourteen among men.
The Clinton bounce is consistent with the national trends where she has recently taken the lead in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. A Rasmussen Reports video notes that the race for the Democratic nomination is now all about the Super Delegates. It is possible that when the primaries come to an end, Obama will have won the most pledged delegates while Clinton will have won the popular vote.
Call it a Democratic Party version of Bush v. Gore, which would actually be pretty funny to watch.
March 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
I have been following this campaign very well for some time now. Putting the petty Headline Hype from the media aside, this is what I know.
Hillary Clinton does have more experience. She knows how to beat McCain. She knows this War. She knows this economy.
Everytime we have a recession and economy problems while a Republican has been office, people have voted largely for Democrats. It is the trend, really. What we do need know is someone who has the benefit of already being there. Who digs in with both hands, takes the heat and knows what she needs to know to get the job done.
Obama is likable, but I don’t believe…he knows what he doesn’t know. If I put the baloney aside for both sides. Give points on each ISSUE for each candidate I come out with Hillary as the person who should be the nominee.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
very true!!!
April 21st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
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