Fenwick graduation 2012
Ponitz graduation 2012
Cars and Parts Swap Meet
Home > Blogs > Ohio politics > Archives > 2008 > February > 25 > Entry
Mo’ Poll
Hours after two polls released Monday show Sen. Hillary Clinton with at least an eight-point lead in Ohio, a third firm put Sen. Barack Obama within four points of catching up with Clinton in the state.
Public Policy Polling, a Raleigh, N.C.-based polling firm that does automated phone surveys, surveyed 600 likely Democratic Ohio primary voters and 430 likely Ohio Republican primary voters on Feb. 23 and Feb. 24. They gave Clinton a 50 percent lead to Obama’s 46 percent lead. They attribute Obama’s strong showing to the “virtual certainty” that Sen. John McCain will be nominated on the Republican side, and said his strong showing means more independents and Republicans will be voting Democratic on March 4.
“Hillary Clinton is in big trouble,” said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling. “The race is trending heavily toward Obama and time is on his side with another eight days before the voting.”
On the Republican side, the poll found McCain leads former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee 55 percent to 30 percent.
Comments
By sjl
February 26, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
The polls the media have been using have all been wrong in the past, they had obama beating Hillary in NH, CA, MA, and possibly NJ. I really wish the media would stop trying to direct the primary election. If obama wins the nominee they will then refocus our attention to the serious problems our country is facing and people will again think and they will back McCain because he over obama has much more experience and that is who the voters will vote for. Obama won’t beable to use Iwas against the war, because he wasn’t in the Senate and then voted for it when he was, and no one was calling bush a liar at the time. McCain will win if obama is nominated we are in too much trouble to let a rookie run our country and people will wake up to this during a general election. I am voting for Hillary she can stand tall on her experience in economic development, foreign policy, family issues, etc. obama can not.