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Indiana Poll: Hillary Ahead By 3, Leads in All But One Age Group

By Jeralyn

A Research 2000 poll of Indiana voters is out today. It has Hillary 49%, Obama 46% with a 5 point margin of error. Full poll results are here (pdf).

The poll over-represented African-American voters. They make up 12% of those surveyed, but 9% of Indiana's population. 81% of those surveyed favor Obama to 16% for Hillary.

Obama had a big lead in the 18 to 29 age group, 63 percent to 36 percent, but in the over 60 age group, Hillary leads 60% to 34%.

And Hillary leads the 30 to 44 age group by 7 points and the 45 to 59 age group by 6 points.

Hillary's campaign says she isn't taking a single vote for granted and the race will be close. [More...]

"It's going to be a hard-fought primary and, going back to what (Clinton) said several times, she is not taking any Hoosier voter for granted," said Jonathan Swain, spokesman for Clinton's Indiana campaign. "This is going to be won precinct by precinct."

Indiana has 72 pledged delegates.

Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have already made a combined 20 Indiana campaign stops, and Obama began airing television commercials around the state last week.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 04, 2008 (boomark / email).