Obama-Clinton tie in new poll

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Talk about going back to square one.

On the national front, Democrats are virtually evenly split over the candidacies of Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the newest tracking poll shows.

Obama is the choice of 47 percent, Clinton 46, a neglible difference in a poll like this, a March 20-22 survey by the Gallup Poll. The survey confirms Gallup's finding just before Easter that "Clinton's recent lead in the race -- apparently fueled by controversy dogging the Obama campaign over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- had evaporated,'' Gallup's Lydia Saad reports.

For all the controversy that Obama has faced during the past few weeks surrounding the "incendiary'' remarks of his longtime and now-retired pastor, remarks which the candidate has disavowed, the last two accountings of the Gallup daily tracker suggest that the senator from Illinois has placed that behind him. Clinton had gained a detectable polling advantage over Obama during the height of the controversy.

Gallup's general election polling, matching presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain against Obama and Clinton, continue to show McCain holding a slight advantage.

The Arizona senator holds a three percentage point lead over Obama in the preferences of registered voters, and a two-point lead over Clinton, again, within the margin of error.

Clinton holds an apparent advantage over Obama heading into the April 22 primary election in Pennsylvania, yet Obama holds an edge over Clinton among the party's pledged delegates -- an edge unlikely to be closed in the remaining primaries, with neither claiming the number needed for nomination. This likely will leave the party's superdelegates with the challenge of settling a race unwinnable in primaries.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Haven't you heard? Polls no longer matter.

They're also unreliable now.

Especially since they are not quite as supportive of Barack Obama as they were last month.

--p!

[rocktivity]

2. But remember how supportive they were of Hillary when SHE was the presumptive nominee?

And we've still got five months to go...

GET THEE BEYOND ME, POLLS!
UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!!!!



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rocknation

[Beacool]

3. She's ahead in the Rasmussen poll. n/t

[tekisui]

5. And behind in Real Clear Politics Poll.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

4. The only poll that matters at this point is the delegate count.

That is, unless Hillary happens to be polling 30 points ahead in every single remaining primary state.