Clinton takes lead in NC?
Insider Advantage has a new poll out from North Carolina that is a quite a surprise:
A survey of 571 registered likely voters in North Carolina’s May 6 Democratic primary shows Sen. Hillary Clinton having moved from a double digit deficit in an InsiderAdvantage poll taken in mid-April to a two point lead over Sen. Barack Obama in this telephone survey, conducted April 29. The survey was weighted for age, race, gender, and political affiliation. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8%Towery believes that Obama will win North Caroilina, and he is probably right. However, it is only bad news for Obama if Clinton can make it into a race in a state whether he has had a double digit lead in the polls.The results were:
Hillary Clinton: 44%
Barack Obama: 42%
Undecided: 14%Prior to his appearance on FoxNews Network’s “Hannity & Colmes,” on which the poll was released, InsiderAdvantage’s Matt Towery noted: “The shift has come almost entirely from white voters age 45 and over. There was a small drift of African-Americans back towards Clinton, but not so significant as to establish any trend.