Obama leads in N.C.; voters distrust Clinton

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/04/obama_leads_in_2.html

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor April 7, 2008 10:36 AM

Hillary Clinton is within striking distance in North Carolina, but a worrisome number of voters don't trust her.

That's the decidedly mixed message from a new poll conducted for The News & Observer in Raleigh, The Charlotte Observer, and TV stations in the two cities.

Barack Obama, who is favored in the May 6 primary, leads Clinton 32 percent to 26 percent, but an unusually high 39 percent remain undecided, according to the survey.

It found that trustworthiness is the most important quality sought by voters, with nearly 90 percent saying it would play an important role in deciding whom they support. On that measure, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain fared best, with 54 percent giving him high marks. Obama won high marks from 48 percent of voters, but only 25 percent of voters said that of Clinton.

The poll, which has a margin of error of plus of minus 4.9 percentage points, was conducted March 29 to April 1, during heavy coverage of Clinton acknowledging that she "misspoke" when she described landing in Bosnia under sniper fire during a 1996 humanitarian visit while first lady.

[Skittles]

1. they trust McCain the most?

that should tell you all you need to know about their judgement

[NJSecularist]

3. McCain will win North Carolina in the GE. n/t

[Skittles]

5. no shit n/t

[NJSecularist]

7. Then why are you surprised by how much they trust McCain? n/t

[Skittles]

8. just saying

touting how much they "trust" Obama is just so much horseshit - these polls are horseshit

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Clinton campaign: the voters are dead to us. nt.

[Yael]

4. 25% is her trust rating?

Wow.

[woolldog]

6. what an odd poll?

39% are undecided? I don't buy it. There must be something wrong with their information gathering process.

[Cha]

9. Oh dear..the average voter is smarter

than accepting without reservation the "misspoke" lie to compound her Bosnia Sniper Fire Lie!

Or as the BelfastTelegraph states it..

<snip>

"Her response to being caught lying to a military audience, when she invented a story about being under sniper fire in Bosnia, was to say it wasn't surprising she got some things wrong, seeing how she spoke millions of words every day. What a magnificent idea, that if you say lots of words some of them are bound to be fantastic lies. So if you listen carefully to horse-racing commentators they say things like "And it's Teddy's Boy still leading three furlongs out as they come up to the fourth last fence with Nip and Tuck two lengths behind by the way I fought a tiger once, punched it clean out and they're all safely over."

<lots more>
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/article3571700.ece

[earthlover]

10. She speaks millions of words/day....a lie!

That would be 11.57 words per second, 24 hours a day. I don't think she talks that fast or that often. Not even at 3AM<

[ORDem]

11. k&R

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