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USA Today/Gallup Poll: Obama Leads Clinton By Ten Points
A new USA Today/Gallup poll shows Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton by ten points nationwide, a slight improvement on the poll from last month:
Obama 50% (+1)
Clinton 40% (-2)
Obama has been through a lot since that last poll -- the Jeremiah Wright controversy and the "small town" flap, for example -- but seems to have weathered the storm.
Another key number: Half of Democratic voters say the long contest is hurting the party, and that party leaders should get together to put a stop to it. But another half say it isn't hurting the party, and it should continue until one candidate definitively clinches the nomination.
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I don't want to nitpick, but one candidate has already definitively clinched the nomination. The math makes it impossible, and it has been clear for quite some time, I'd say since Ohio/Texas...so what epiphany are people waiting for? For Hillary to voluntarily say "Okay, I'm going to stop pretending I'm going to get some miraculous rush of superdelegates to push me over the edge and splinter the Party?
April 22, 2008 9:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does this mean Obama will win the upcoming nationwide primary?
April 22, 2008 9:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Fine good - let's get it over with so that she can drop out.
April 22, 2008 9:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Boy, I wonder which half supports which candidate.
April 22, 2008 9:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
My thoughts exactly.
April 22, 2008 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Surrender Dorothy!
April 22, 2008 9:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 22, 2008 9:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent - my favorite movie and very appropriate! :)
April 22, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
April 22, 2008 9:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7PfSEtiXPw
CHECK OUT THE ABOVE VIDEO COURTESY YOU TUBE.
I knew the McCain's had 7 homes, wrong....more. And just watch, very short, to see his answers to all of us, such as take a second job, etc. UFB.
April 22, 2008 9:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow - that video needs to be e-mailed to everybody on my list. I had no idea just how rich he was. He's just as out of touch (if not moreso) than Bush. How does he think Americans should get by? "Get a second job ... skip a vacation" - OMG! He sounds like Barbara Bush saying about Katrina victims holed up in the Astrodome "well, so many of them were underprivileged that this is working quite well for them". Completely and utterly clueless! We cannot ever allow another Republican in the White House - they are entirely without compassion and morals!
April 22, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Carol, I agree. I am trying to get it out to everyone I know. I just read this too, regarding his tax return:
When McCain released his tax return for 2007 on Friday, he separately disclosed that he received a pension of $58,358 that was not listed as income on his return.
Disability pay from the Navy. Like he needs that money, disgusting.
April 22, 2008 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dateline Jan 20, 2017: Polls show that Obama now leads Clinton 99 to 1. Clinton says she still has a chance, don't try to force her out.
April 22, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Do not mock Hillary's time traveling ability. She is still in this baby.
April 22, 2008 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
But, wait, I'm confused, Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough are saying that the fact that Obama can't "finish off" Hillary means that Obama isn't electable in the Fall. He has trouble with "white men", as they put it....and, everyone knows Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough represent the common man. And you know how I know that, because they mention it every time I see them on TV.
Sorry, I know this is only vaguely on topic, but I just can't stand those two. Recently they seem to have gotten the memo with the talking points that "Obama can't close the deal" and is "unelectable". They are total right-wing shills when it comes down to it.
April 22, 2008 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yesterday, Scarborough spent the better part of the morning discussing Obama's free fall in the Gallup Tracking Poll & wondering why no one else was talking about it. He served up a softball to Howard Wolfson along the lines of "What would the press do if this happened to Hillary...?"
So, this morning, when he had the same poll with Obama back up to +7? No comment.
April 22, 2008 10:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Someone needs to tell them that Hillary isn't exactly "finishing off" Obama, either. In fact, she reminds me of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
April 22, 2008 12:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary Clinton has just threatened to "obliterate" Iran if it attacks Israel. While I'm sure there are some who like this sort of sabre-rattling (how else do we explain the debacle that is Iraq?) it scares me.
To my mind, she's just given the clearest reason of all to back Obama, who continually calls for diplomacy with Iran. The last thing we need is someone who incites more fear and hatred of the U.S. in the Middle East.
April 22, 2008 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
By putting "Gallup" in the headline, you lend the poll more credence than if you put "USAToday," right? Would you do the same if Hillary were leading? I think not. You are such biased, disgusting people. Just shed the facade and come out full force in favor of Obama.
April 22, 2008 11:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
umm, Mike1981, this site is pretty fair when it comes to Hillary and Obama. They post every press release, every poll, everything.
Stay a week and you'll see.
April 22, 2008 11:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
You know, I don't think most Americans CARE what Joe Scarborough thinks.
Most people don't even watch these political shows, or keep track of Gallup polling numbers.
I've just been listening to Real Time with Bill Maher, the episode with Cornel West and Markos Moulitsas.
They go to a GUN RANGE in PA, and find people there support Obama! They know Obama is not going to take away their guns. They aren't stupid. They care about the fact they have to work two jobs to keep their house!
Go check it out on itunes.
April 22, 2008 11:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, that was a great segment on Real Time.
April 22, 2008 11:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Watch Scarborough parrot the Clinton spin later tonight. A few weeks ago the conventional wisdom was saying Hillary needed a big win in PA to justify staying in the race. But later tonight the story will be that a win by any margin is sufficient, and raises serious doubts about Obama....
This is clearly an argument to the Superdelegates. If this were even close to being true, then why has Hillary been leaking Superdelegates at the rate of one or two a week?
April 22, 2008 11:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Posted on: Philly.com
We continue to hear reports of broken machines. This tale was reported to the Daily News by a very patient voter:
"I just came from voting. Finally got my vote in at 49 ward, 07 division....after waiting for (the only) 2 voting machines to be repaired.
"I was able to cast my vote for Obama after waiting 1 and 1/2 hours. During that time at least 100 voters left without voting.....possibly not to return.
"I immediately called every News channel I could get through to. Persons who answered at the stations informed me that my ward was not the only one with broken machines and 'Paper ballots (as an alternative) without Obama's name on it. These provisional ballots did have Hiliary's name on them."
April 22, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. I voted in my NW Philly neighborhood without incident this morning (for Obama), but this kind of stuff doesn't shock me in the least. Hopefully, those folks will come back later today.
April 22, 2008 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen. Like he needs the money. And to think he's against the pending GI bill in the Senate. "Saint McCain" my ass. But don't expect more than cursory coverage of his hypocrisy, at least not when the Democrats are putting on such an entertaining show. This is why we need to wrap it up. While Hillary validates every Rove/Atwater trick in the book by using them herself, McCain skates by with minimal scrutiny.
April 22, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink