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Clinton leads McCain in Ohio, Florida and Pa.
With key support from white working class voters, Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican John McCain in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania in a possible matchup for the November presidential election. In Ohio, she leads McCain by 10 points.
In a separate matchup in a Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday, May 1 McCain, an Arizona senator,was in a close race with Democrat Barack Obama, a senator from Illinois, in Florida and Ohio but Obama led in Pennsylvania.
Release of the poll came on the same day McCain was scheduled to campaign in Cleveland while Obama and Clinton, a New York senator, continue to battle it out in Indiana and North Carolina in preparation for primaries in the two states next Tuesday, May 6.
Poll results:
Ohio
Clinton - 48 McCain - 38
McCain - 43 Obama - 42
Florida
Clinton - 49 McCain - 41
McCain - 44 Obama - 43
Pennsylvania
Clinton- 51 McCain - 37
Obama - 47 McCain - 38
Obama is trying to regroup after his loss to Clinton in Pennsylvania and more controversial comments from his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Clinton, lagging in delegates, continues to promote herself as more electable against McCain.
“If the superdelegates are looking at electability, these results could be a shot in the arm for Sen. Clinton,” Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Polling Institute, said in a prepared statement.
“No one has won the White House since 1960 without carrying two of these three swing states….And she clearly is running much better against Sen. McCain than is Sen. Obama.”
The poll was conducted Wednesday, April 23, through Tuesday, April 29. In Ohio 1,127 voters were interviewed with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percent. In Pennsylvania, 1,494 voters were interviewed, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percent.
In Florida, there were 1,411 interviews with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percent.
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