The latest Rasmussen Poll shows Hillary Clinton leading by only 5 percentage points in the Keystone State:
Senator Hillary Clinton’s lead in the Pennsylvania Primary is shrinking.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Pennsylvania shows Clinton leading Barack Obama by just five percentage points, 47% to 42%. For Clinton, that five-point edge is down from a ten-point lead a week ago, a thirteen-point lead in mid-March and a fifteen-point advantage in early March.
Support for Clinton slipped from 52% early in March, to 51% in mid-month, 49% a week ago, and 47% today. During that same time frame, support for Obama has increased from 37% to 42
This helps Obama in two respects.
First, quite obviously, if he managed to pull out a win in Pennsylvania, even a small one, it would essentially be the final nail in the coffin for Hillary, even if she’s unwilling to admit it.
Second, even if Clinton does win, that win won’t change the race by much if she only pulls out a single-digit victory and Obama turns around and scores big in North Carolina two weeks later, as current polls indicate.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:29 am
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