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More on the Indiana Poll Showing Hillary Up by 16

By Jeralyn

Earlier, Big Tent Democrat wrote about the SUSA Indiana poll taken 4/11 to 4/13. Some additional notes (Full Poll Results here):

Of the 1,600 polled, only 571 were likely Democratic voters. Of those who identified themselves as Democrats.

Among the Democrats, 60% preferred Clinton to 37% who preferred Obama. Among Republicans, it was almost the reverse.

Among the age groups, Hillary had the 18 to 34 group by 49%, Obama was at 43%. As to the African American vote, Hillary had 23% to Obama's 72%.

Hillary was way ahead of Obama with both the pro-choice voters and the pro-life voters. She also got 58% of self-identified liberals.

The number of Republicans weighing in should be evident from the top concerns: Terrorism, Health Care, Immigration. My conclusion: If this poll had just been of likely Democratic primary voters, Obama would have been trounced worse.

1,600 state of Indiana adults were interviewed 04/11/08 through 04/13/08. All interviews were completed before the Democratic candidates appeared in a "compassion forum" the evening of 04/13/08. Of the adults, 1,386 were registered to vote. Of them, 571 were determined by SurveyUSA to be likely to vote in the 05/06/08 Indiana Democratic Primary.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 14, 2008 (boomark / email).