New USA Today/Gallup Poll: Hillary 30%, Obama 29%

[Colobo]

Without Gore, Hillary 37%, Obama 36%.

Dems only: Hillary 34%, Obama 29%.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-06-04-poll_N.htm?csp=34

Superb news!

[Colobo]

1. Kick.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. superb for who?

?

[MadBadger]

3. Obama supporters obviously.

LIke myself.

[Colobo]

4. Those of us who like Obama and for the country. Obama is good for America.

[Kahuna]

18. Superb for Dems because Obama fares the best against the GOP field..

:hi:

[goclark]

5. Excellent news !

GOBAMA!

GoHillary!
Go GORE!

[Colobo]

6. GOBAMA!!!

[zulchzulu]

7. As much as I like the news, this is a crappy poll

A "margin of error of +/- 5 percentage points" is garbage. An MoE of 3% or less is where the line begins on a decent poll.

Add the irrelevance of national polls at this point. National polls will only make sense after Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina have voted next year...February 6 national polls will be a lot more meaningful after the national primary the day before.

[Colobo]

8. Who cares? It looks great, and perception is everything.

[zulchzulu]

9. If this makes you over-confident, then that's not good either

Hey, I like the news...but if I was talking to someone saavy about political polls, I'd have to say it was two bad things:

1. A national poll from a fairly small pool of people
2. The poll had a MoE of 5%

I would then get laughed at for citing a crap poll as "evidence"...

[demobabe]

17. It's Gallup

Always favors Republican viewpoints...

Republicans want Hillary to be the nomination. Gallup will keep reinforcing that right up to the election. Hillary isn't electable, and they know that. They have to bury Obama - they don't want their candidate going up against him or Edwards.

This is only news that the Republican spin machine is in place...

[arcos]

10. The funny thing is that it doesn't mention the numbers for either Gore or Edwards... nt

[itsrobert]

11. Just another PUSH POLL

They probably pushed the respondents to either choose Clinton or Obama. Just another example of the corporate news picking our candidates.

[MadBadger]

14. Maybe it is because Edwards polled more than 20 points behind the two with or without Gore?

[arcos]

21. And where are Gore's numbers? nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Why do they conduct polls such as these

when the election is 17 months away?



Oh, yeah — it's so they'll have polls to report about.

[saracat]

13. And the Dems have NO other candidates? Why coverage of all the GOP and

only results for Hillary and Obama?

[MadBadger]

15. Edwards polled more than 20 points behind Hillary and Obama with and without Gore

[TheWatcher]

16. Indeed it is.

Superb for the Status Quo.

I was really, really worried for awhile that Americans would wake up and want real change, but I have to be honest with you, I feel better about things after seeing this Poll.

Thank God this country is not waking up.

I can't imagine what this place would be like if it did.

[deacon]

19. Run Al Run!!

[earthlover]

20. More evidence that Hillary is inevitable.....LOL

Expect now to have speculation that Obama, now that it is obvious Hillary is going to win, is angling for VP. SARC