Obama losing points in overnight poll

Rasmussen Reports:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton essentially even in the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. It’s Obama 46% Clinton 45% (see recent daily results). This reflects an unusually sharp change from yesterday’s results when Obama led by eight points and reached the 50% level of support for the first time. Daily tracking results are collected via nightly telephone surveys and reported on a four-day rolling average basis. Last night’s results were very favorable for Clinton and it remains to be seen whether this marks a lasting change in the race or is merely statistical noise. Single night results are based upon very small samples and are more volatile than the overall tracking poll.

Looking to November, John McCain now holds a slight lead over both Democrats in the General Election. It’s McCain 47% Obama 42% and McCain 46% Clinton 42% (see recent daily results). It appears that Clinton’s challenges to Obama may be helping McCain at least in the short-term. McCain’s polling numbers against Obama began improving during the run-up to the hard-fought Democratic Primaries in Ohio and Texas. Obama has a three-percentage point edge over McCain among unaffiliated voters but is currently supported by just 65% of Democrats. By way of comparison, McCain earns the vote from 80% of Republicans.

New Rasmussen Reports polling data also shows McCain with a six-point lead over both Obama and Clinton in Ohio. That’s an improvement for McCain relative to polls conducted before the Democratic Primaries in Texas and Ohio. McCain has also recently gained ground against the Democrats in both Michigan and Pennsylvania. Noting these trends, a Rasmussen Reports look at the race suggests that John McCain may be the luckiest man on the planet since Ringo Starr. The Presidential race in 2008 should be the Democrats to lose and in many ways they are currently doing their best to lose it.

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Well, to paraphrase McCain, it is better that the Democrats lose the election than that our country lose a war. It appears that Rev. Wright's sermons were not well received by a flock of Americans who don't hate their country. Obama's slide is not as fast as Elliot Sptizer's but it is probably inevitable at this point. Whether it will be fast enough for Hillary to sell buyer's remorse to the Super Delegates is another question.

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