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Gallup: Dem Race A Dead Heat
Today's Gallup tracking poll shows the national Democratic race to be a virtual tie between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a shift from yesterday's numbers that showed Obama's lead to be outside the margin of error:
Obama 46% (-3)
Clinton 45% (+3)
Late Update: Some analysis from Gallup shows that the plagiarism accusations might have had something to do with it, though it's too early to know for sure. Key quote:
Clinton was seven percentage points behind Obama in the Feb. 15-17 average. In Monday night's interviewing, Clinton's percentage of the vote of national voters was higher than Obama's, but there has been fluidity in the nightly tracking numbers over the past several days as Democrats nationally process the intense, often heated, nature of the campaign. Monday's news coverage of the Democratic campaign was replete with a focus on the Clinton campaign's charges that Obama had plagiarized material from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and other negative attacks on Obama by the Clinton campaign. It is unclear which, if any, of these factors could be responsible for changes in the candidates' standing.
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