The latest Gallup tracking poll has Barack Obama with a significant lead over Hillary Clinton:
PRINCETON, NJ — Today’s Gallup Poll Daily tracking update finds Barack Obama with an eight percentage point advantage over Hillary Clinton (50% to 42%), this gives him a statistically significant advantage for the first time since before the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controvers
Obama last held a significant lead over Clinton in March 11-13 polling, just before Wright’s controversial sermons came to light and put his former parishioner on the defensive. Clinton seemed to benefit from the Wright flap, moving into the lead in two consecutive days of tracking releases (based on March 16-18 and March 17-19 polling). That lead quickly dissipated and the two candidates retreated into a statistical dead heat, where they have been for much of the recent campaign. (To view the complete trend since Jan. 2, 2008, click here.)
Obama’s current 8-point advantage ties his largest lead of the Gallup Poll Daily tracking program, along with a 50% to 42% showing in Feb. 28-March 1 polling. Obama clearly has weathered the Wright storm, while the dark clouds have shifted to Clinton over whether she has exaggerated her foreign policy credentials. This week she has had to defend her repeated claim that she came under sniper fire while visiting Bosnia as first lady, which news video clearly disputed.
I guess the kitchen sink strategy didn’t work.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Hillary does not deserve our trust. She’s lied and lied!
I don’t think the american people are so blind. Hillary’s wickedness will ruin America for ever.
Bosnia, Ireland, etc. are just a drop in the ocean of what she’s done to America.
Go home Billary! Don’t come back again