« Ten Worst Housing Markets | Main | One last reminder »

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%

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.

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.

Post a comment