Hillary's favorability drops below 50% in NY; Obama opens 10 pt national lead

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Poll: Hillary's Favorability Rating Lower Than Obama's Or McCain's -- In New York

By Greg Sargent - April 22, 2008, 9:56AM

That's what a new Siena College poll out today finds.

It suggests that the harsh campaign Hillary is running against Obama could be blowing back on her in her home state. Hillary has a favorability rating of less than 50% in New York -- 48%, to be exact. It's the lowest ever in Siena polling.

Meanwhile, Obama has a fave rating of 54%.

Even John McCain has a higher fave rating than Hillary in New York -- he checks in at 54%, too.

Nonetheless, Hillary is beating McCain 46%-42% in the state, while Obama is beating him 45%-40%.

Obama widens national lead in USA TODAY/Gallup Poll

By Susan Page, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama has widened his lead nationally for the Democratic presidential nomination despite a furor over his comments about small-town Americans, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds. Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is getting more of the blame among those who say their contest has become too negative.

As the candidates make a final push for votes in today's Pennsylvania primary, Obama leads the survey by 50%-40% among Democrats and voters who lean Democratic. That's a bigger edge than the 7 percentage-point lead he held in the USA TODAY poll last month.

Efforts by Clinton and John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, to characterize Obama as elitist for his remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser seem to have failed. Seven of 10 say Obama "respects working-class Americans" rather than looks down on them — a slightly more positive reading than that for McCain or Clinton.

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Democrats are divided, too, about whether the contest has become too negative. Among the half who say it has, 43% blame Clinton, 3% blame Obama. Fifty-three percent blame both equally.

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Hillary's questions about Obama's patriotism and her enemies list

[NJmaverick]

1. In her desperate attempt to seize the nomination

She has destroyed her electability.

[0007]

2. WTG!!

Goddamnit!! Where's Bill when ya need him?

[Zachstar]

3. This is BEFORE the republicans will pull the archives called "CLINTON:" and put them into ads

We know NOTHING about Clinton compared to the Republicans. They have awaited her running for over 8 years. And have done more than a little research.

[Andy823]

6. That's for sure.

I have noticed how silent the republicans are when it comes to attacking Hillary, yet they go full speed ahead on Obama. They want her to win the nomination, otherwise they know McCain is not going to stand a chance of winning. To many republicans don't like McCain, and to many are also fed up with the war, and will be voting for Obama if he is the democratic nominee. Hillary changes all that, and will bring out all those who don't like McCain to vote for him, instead of Hillary. It's obvious what they want. Like you said they have had over 8 years to dig up dirt, and we all know they have a lot of it!

[Zachstar]

7. They are also worried about Paul supporters.

Against Clinton the Paul supporters will calm down because many of em view Clinton just as badly as McCain.


But against Obama they will work just as hard to destroy support for McCain inside the republican party.

With Obama we have several factors working in our favor. With Clinton we mise well say hello to President McCain. Because the only way Clinton can effectively get in is with the supers overturning the pledged. Causing Chaos.

[roguevalley]

8. she is committing career and personal suicide.

[book_worm]

4. In her own homestate she is up by only four points?

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. k&r............nt

:kick:

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. late afternoon kick

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[ProSense]

11. Thanks. n/t

[TheDonkey]

10. I hope a good Democrat runs against her in NY

America needs a clean slate, no more Clintons.

[ProSense]

12. NYT addresses Hillary's electability argument

Assessing Strength in Swing States

By PATRICK HEALY
Published: April 24, 2008

Reflecting on her victory in the Pennsylvania primary, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday neatly summed up the chief political rationale of her enduring candidacy.

“I won the states that we have to win — Ohio, now Pennsylvania,” Mrs. Clinton said on CNN about her successes over Senator Barack Obama, in one of her six appearances on morning news shows. “It’s very hard to imagine a Democrat getting to the White House without winning those states.”

Mrs. Clinton says her popularity among blue-collar workers, women and Hispanics makes her the candidate to beat Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, in the swing states that decide presidential races. Along with Ohio and Pennsylvania, she also cites her success in Michigan and Florida — even though the Democratic Party disqualified those contests, and Mr. Obama was not on the Michigan ballot — to claim an edge in crucial battlegrounds.

Yet for all of her primary night celebrations in the populous states, exit polling and independent political analysts offer evidence that Mr. Obama could do just as well as Mrs. Clinton among blocs of voters with whom he now runs behind. Obama advisers say he also appears well-positioned to win swing states and believe he would have a strong shot at winning traditional Republican states like Virginia.

According to surveys of Pennsylvania voters leaving the polls on Tuesday, Mr. Obama would draw majorities of support from lower-income voters and less-educated ones — just as Mrs. Clinton would against Mr. McCain, even though those voters have favored her over Mr. Obama in the primaries.

And national polls suggest Mr. Obama would also do slightly better among groups that have gravitated to Republican in the past, like men, the more affluent and independents, while she would do slightly better among women.

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