Arizona Poll: Clinton's big lead over Obama shrinking

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The Arizona Republic
Jan. 26, 2008 12:00 AM
The latest Arizona poll indicates that the once-wide gap between Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has narrowed, although Clinton maintains a clear lead.

Ten percentage points separate Clinton and Obama among Arizona Democrats, according to the Behavior Research Center's statewide Rocky Mountain Poll, released Friday. Clinton had 37 percent to Obama's 27 percent, compared with a similar November poll that had Clinton with 44 percent to Obama's 14 percent. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina had 15 percent in the new poll.

The poll reflects the continuing and visibly heated fight going on among Democrats in the state's Feb. 5 presidential primary. Obama and Clinton are far more active in local advertising and news releases than the Republican campaigns.

"At the moment, Clinton clings to a lead that appears to be shrinking," a Behavior Research Center news release said.

On the GOP side, Sen. John McCain holds a dominant lead in the poll with 40 percent, trailed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, with 23 percent. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won in Iowa but has failed to maintain momentum, is a distant third with 9 percent. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 6.5 percentage points for Democrats and 6.3 percentage points for Republicans.

The poll said that nearly one in five Democrats and one in 10 Republicans surveyed were undecided.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0125presidentialpoll0125ONL.html

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1. : )

[BluegrassDem]

2. They're all gonna start narrowing once Obama gets to campaigning in those big states

Clinton held huge leads in Iowa last year too, but once the campaigning started, her lead vanished.