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Hillary Maintains Lead in Rhode Island Poll

By Jeralyn

A Brown University, Rhode Island poll taken Feb. 9-10 shows Hillary Clinton maintaining her lead over Barack Obama, 36% to 28% with 27% uncommitted and 9% undecided. In September, Hillary's support was at 35%, so she gained a point. Obama gained substantially, from 16%
to 27%, garnering the votes of those previously for Edwards, Biden, Dodd, etc., but he's still 9 points behind Hillary. The undecided/uncommitted votes now are at 36%, in September they were at 35%.

Rhode Island's primary day is March 4, same as Texas and Ohio. The full poll results are here (pdf.) [More...]

On the issue of beating John McCain, which has been prominently in the news the past few days, it breaks down like this:

If the presidential general election were held today, would you vote for:

32% Republican John McCain or 43% Democrat Hillary Clinton? 25% don’t know or no answer

If the presidential general election were held today, would you vote for: 30% Republican John McCain or 42% Democrat Barack Obama? 28% don’t know or no answer.

In other words, both Hillary and Obama would beat McCain there.

If I were Hillary, I'd think about a few short trips to Rhode Island to excite the base before heading over to Ohio.

Here's a full demographic report on Rhode Island's 1 million people:

• 82% white
• 5% African American
• 11% Hispanic

The state dems have 32 delegates.

In the 2004 primary, the vote went 71% to John Kerry and 19% to John Edwards while Howard Dean got 4%.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 12, 2008 (boomark / email).