Roy G Biv
Senior Member
I'll quickly point out that you're asking the SD's to nominate the candidate with over 100 less pledged delegates and less popular vote. Such an act will pretty much splinter the party in two, and Democrats should stop assuming they'll win all the states they normally would.
Suggesting Hillary would have an "easy ride" to winning Ohio makes no sense. She only beat Obama by 10 pts, and that was during Nafta-gate.
Meanwhile...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Independents are going to play a big role in November; Obama will be much more competitive in this regard.
Suggesting Hillary would have an "easy ride" to winning Ohio makes no sense. She only beat Obama by 10 pts, and that was during Nafta-gate.
Meanwhile...
The increasingly charged Democratic race for the White House appears to be hurting Hillary Clinton significantly more than Barack Obama, a just-released poll suggests.
According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, the New York senator's personal approval rating has dropped markedly, and those that hold a negative view of her have reached 48 percent — the highest in that poll since March 2001. Just 37 percent now have a positive view of Clinton — down from 45 percent two weeks ago.
Meanwhile, in head-to-head matchups Clinton and Obama remain deadlocked for the nomination, each drawing 45 percent among Democratic voters. Both are also statistically tied with John McCain in matchups: Clinton is two points behind the Arizona senator while Obama is two points ahead — both within the poll’s margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Hillary Clinton’s argument that she is the Democratic contender best-equipped to win the “big states” the party needs to capture the White House took a slight hit Thursday with the release of a new survey that seems to suggest Barack Obama is better-positioned to win California – a state where she won last month’s primary contest.
A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California indicates if the election were held today, Obama would hold a 49-40 percent advantage over McCain in a hypothetical fall matchup there. Clinton’s 43-40 percent edge over McCain falls just outside the survey’s margin of error. Fifty-seven percent of independent voters in the state have a favorable view of Obama, while just 35 percent say they like Clinton.
The survey of 2,002 California voters was conducted by telephone from March 11-18, and has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Independents are going to play a big role in November; Obama will be much more competitive in this regard.