Weekend polling by WMUR and CNN shows Barack Obama with a double-digit lead going into Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. The poll, conducted over the weekend, finds Obama with 39% of the support, to Hillary Clinton’s 29%. A poll released Saturday had found them in a dead heat at 33%.
This latest tracking poll also shows John Edwards at 16%, down from 20%, with other Democrats in single digits.
On the Repubican side, John McCain maintains his lead over Mitt Romney, 32% to 26%, with Iowa winner Mike Huckabee gaining a little ground with 11%.
The Democrats’ poll has a margin of error of +/- 5 percentage points; the GOP 6.
I’ll repeat a comment I posted in the thread following the Cartoon of the Week:
I was near an Obama field office this afternoon and decided to stop in to see how it’s going. I couldn’t. Their lot was full, adjacent lots of small stores that are closed today were full, some people parked on the road, half in a ditch.
It’s happening and I’ve got gooseflesh.
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Haven’t noticed this kind of electricity building around a national candidate since Pierre Trudeau caused Trudeamania. Of course that would be something like JFK to Americans. This is just about the coolest thing I have ever witnessed though I hope I am still saying that in 8 years (breathe!)
We remember Trudeau too! And Maggie.
I was thinking about Obama’s strong support among young people and that’s something I haven’t seen since Reagan. Cool, indeed.
Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment, Neath.
Yes, these are interesting days. Obama looks increasingly credible – he is relatively inexperienced, but in some ways this process is now about the Democrats deciding if he is really electable, just like the Labour Party once did with Tony Blair.
Perhaps some of the ingredients are much the same. A long history of the same kind of government. A history of economic mismanagement, and an increasing belief that the establishment no longer cared. A feeling that a new broom really could sweep clean, and an appeal to a younger and entirely new kind of voter.
I feel goosebumps, too, although I really hope that he delivers more than Blair finally did. Or less, if you count Iraq.
Inexperience has never been much of an obstacle to the White House, with our recent history of electing governors to be president. Even those who were in the movies. (although the current actor-turned-candidate is barely a blip on the radar)
I think if Obama wins tomorrow, he will be a steamroller in South Carolina (Jan. 26). Much was made about his electablility when he won Iowa, which is very white. NH slightly more so. I often say if this state were any more Caucasian it would be translucent. Winning here will let me dare to hope this nation has finally reached a point that it is willing to be led by someone other than a white male of European descent.
And oh by the way — Hillary said this morning she’ll stay in the race even if she loses tomorrow.
As for experience, I’ll take a Senator who’s used to making deals in congress, over a Governor who runs his own little fiefdom, any day.
I’m with you. Fiefdom, indeed. That hasn’t worked out too well.