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Clinton Lead Falling in Key Keystone State
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by politisite | April 8, 2008 at 08:04 am
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Senator Clinton's Lead is Falling in Key Keystone State
April 8, 2008 - Obama Catching Up With Clinton In Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; She's Losing Ground Even Among Women
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is catching up with New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary and now trails 50 - 44 percent among likely primary voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
This compares to a 50 - 41 percent Sen. Clinton lead in an April 2 poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN uh-pe-ack) University.
In this latest survey, one of the biggest shifts is among women who went from 54 - 37 percent for Clinton April 2 to 54 - 41 percent for her today. A look at other groups shows:
* White voters for Clinton 56 - 38 percent, down from 59 - 34 percent last week.
* Black voters back Obama 75 - 17 percent, compared to 73 - 11 percent.
* Men are for Obama 48 - 44 percent, compared to a 46 - 46 percent tie last week.
* Voters under 45 go with Obama 55 - 40, while older voters back Clinton 55 - 38 percent.
"With two weeks to go, Sen. Barack Obama is knocking on the door of a major political upset in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Obama is not only building on his own constituencies, but is taking away voters in Sen. Hillary Clinton's strongest areas - whites including white women, voters in the key swing Philadelphia suburbs and those who say the economy is the most important issue in the campaign," said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
2008 Democratic Primary Schedule
APRIL 2008
• April 22: Pennsylvania
MAY 2008
• May 6: Indiana, North Carolina
• May 13: Nebraska, West Virginia
• May 20: Kentucky, Oregon
JUNE 2008
• June 3: Montana, South Dakota
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at 15:29 on April 8th, 2008
McCain lead surging in Keystone State. Obama never had a lead. They make these polls up, to stir the ranckor. Whoever thinks politics is a social design to keep society happy and responsive are without a clue to respect of individuals, honoring one another, and supporting each other. Why aren't candidates saying good things about each other? Why don't they say they support each other? Why doesn't one candidate give money to another to help them? American politics is about hurting the other opponent, embarrassing them, making them look like incompetent fools. Democracy is not about America, its about how a candidate thinks about America and how their corruption can hurt it. America is not about the peoples business, its about candidates business's, their lies, their thefts, their coverups, their wars. Who can buy into such a worthless ideal as Democracy? All Americans give and support their government with US tax dollars, that went to kill thousands of innocent families in Iraq. And somehow American people shrug it off as if they had no part or hand in the crime. I can see why Americans are so impotent and irresponsible to impeach their lying maniac Bush in going to war when in fact they are the ones who gave him the money to do it. Do we really think the American people want to take the rap for invading a country that was as about as defenseless as some 3rd world African tribe? Really who cares about elections in the USA? I certainly don't because it is as devisive and socially inept as you can get in a society. People are always at each others throats, with only the law preventing total social chaos. But even that didn't work when we know Bush and his criminal syndicate orchestrated and did 911 killing thousands of innocent American citizens. And people don't want to solve that issue by supporting this nonsense of an election cycle? You people are not Americans, you are examples of the chaos of the world at large.