Poll: Black support helps Clinton extend lead

[journalist3072]

updated 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

Poll: Black support helps Clinton extend lead

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead over Sen. Barack Obama, her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, is growing among African-American voters who are registered Democrats, and particularly among black women, a poll said Wednesday.

Among black registered Democrats overall, Clinton had a 57 percent to 33 percent lead over Obama.

That's up from 53 percent for Clinton and 36 percent for Obama in a poll carried out in April.

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The former first lady's strongest support among blacks came from black women, 68 percent of whom identified her as their likely choice, versus 25 percent who cited Obama, the senator from Illinois who is African-American.

Black men who are registered Democrats were nearly evenly split, with 42 percent favoring Clinton and 46 percent favoring Obama. The sampling error of that question was plus-or-minus 8 percentage points.

Entire article at: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/17/poll.blacks.democrats/index.html

[Perry Logan]

1. You don't understand. The only accurate polls are the ones about Hillary's "negatives."

Any polls showing Hillary kicking ass are, of course, completely bogus. That's "Anti-Hillarite" logic, in case you didn't notice.

[BootinUp]

2. The numbers here

are amazingly good for her. I am surprised at how well she is doing, but only mildly.

[Lucinda]

3. 5....4....3....2....1

[DURHAM D]

4. Thanks for posting.

Interesting change.

[durrrty libby]

5. Fabulous...Go Hillary

[emilyg]

6. Thanks.