Hillary, Obama virtually tied in new poll
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were virtually tied in their race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, while John McCain clearly leads among Republicans, according to a new national poll out yesterday.
The Washington Post-ABC News poll has Clinton, the senator from New York, with 47 percent support against Obama, senator from Illinois, with 43 percent.
The difference was within the poll's plus or minus four-point margin of error.
Neither Clinton nor Obama seem to have clearly benefited from Democrat John Edwards's dropping out of the campaign, according to a Post analysis of the January 30-February 1 poll of 1,249 adults.
However McCain, senator from Arizona, had a commanding lead -- 48 percent against 24 percent -- over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. His gains follow victories in Republican primaries in South Carolina and Florida, and come after one-time front runner Rudolph Giuliani dropped out of the race.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is a distant third among Republicans with 16 percent, while Representative Ron Paul is in the single-digits at seven percent.
The poll appears two days before "Super Tuesday," in which voters in 24 states cast ballots for their candidates ahead of each party's respective nominating convention.
Once formally nominated, the Democratic and Republican candidates will face off in the November 4 general election.
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