It looks like Hillary Clinton’s bounced from last Tuesday didn’t last very long.
Barack Obama is back in the lead in the national polls:
On Monday, the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows—for the first time in a week–Barack Obama with a slight advantage over Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. It’s Obama 46% Clinton 44%. Yesterday, Clinton was up by two points (see recent daily results). Clinton is viewed favorably by 73% of Likely Democratic Primary Voters. However, that figure includes just 55% of Obama voters. Obama is viewed favorably by 69% of Likely Democratic Primary Voters, a figure that includes 43% of Clinton supporters.
Obama has also recaptured the lead in Gallup’s tracking poll:
PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-nine percent of Democratic voters nationally support Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination compared with 44% backing Hillary Clinton, giving Obama a slight but statistically significant five percentage point lead.
For the past week Clinton and Obama had been neck and neck in national Democratic support, but preferences have now returned to where they stood in late February when Gallup Poll Daily tracking found Obama consistently ahead by a 5- to 8-point margin.
Here’s the chart, which captures just how short Hillary’s bounce was:
H/T: Rasmussen Reports and Marc Ambinder
March 10th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Obama’s return is very impressive. The polls are up and the momentum keeps on coming. He is trending higher and higher on intrade.
I think this maybe because we are seeing somekind of inbuilt solidity increasing in how Obama is being percieved, especially as he is wrapping up this nomination.
On a note. There is talk of a Obama tour to Berlin, Vatican, Israel, Iraq and possibily Asia/Africa.
http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=870
March 10th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
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