Obama's CNN Polls Over Last Week

With Tuesday's New Hampshire primary fast approaching, Sen. Barack Obama has opened a double-digit lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton in the state, a CNN-WMUR poll found Sunday.

Obama, the first-term senator from Illinois who won last week's Iowa caucuses, led the New York senator and former first lady 39 percent to 29 percent in a poll conducted Saturday and Sunday -- a sharp change from a poll out Saturday that showed the Democratic front-runners tied at 33 percent.

It was Senator Hillary Clinton who was ahead of Obama according to the CNN/WMUR Poll released January 2:

The Democratic race in New Hampshire has tightened up, too. Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York has a 4-point lead over Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, 34 percent to 30 percent, among likely Democratic primary voters. But if you take into account the survey's sampling error of plus or minus 5 percentage points, it's a statistical dead heat.

Read more New Hampshire polls.

Read HuffPost's New Hampshire news page.

Comments

[davidmwe]

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Ron Paul, not only the choice of people on the internet:
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but also of anyone American.

[SearchingForPericles]

I have no ill will for any of the Dem candidates (or Huckabee or McCain either, for that matter).

I think all the Dems would be very good Presidents, but Obama has the best chance to get big things done.

HRC is coming around at a bad time. Bill's legacy both helps and haunts (triangulation, lying, etc.). She's tough, smart. She's worked for health care reform, education reform, and was a Watergate lawyer. Pretty good Dem street cred.

Edwards. I have the most confidence that he'll stand up.

Richardson (and Dodd and Biden) were all experienced hands who would do well.

Still, to use a sports metaphor, Obama has the most up side. His administration could bring a working majority and a tone that could allow us to get things done.

Os for him being easy GOP meat. The Machiavellian, Atwater, Rove strategy is dead (at least for this cycle).

Clinton's only hope is to go Giuliani, hope to win the big states on Super Tuesday, where there is less face to face campaigning. She can't compete in that area with Obama, he's too inspirational.

Plus, Dems bought what she's selling last time (experience, electibility) and got burned.
She fighting Kerry's legacy as well and Bill's.

The crying thing is way overblown. Rudy said he cried on 9/11. Bush admits to shedding tears.

[ErrinF]

Simple question: Has Hilary ever faced a tough primary fight before? No. She had everything handed to her by running for Senate in New York. She is soft, and made a mistake of having her only real campaign experience be from running for Senate in New York. She simply was not ready for the presidential leagues.

Hilary is going to lose tomorrow just like she lost in Iowa last week. She is a weak candidate with too much negative baggage. Only a fool would waste their vote on her, as it is quite obvious that she is running a doomed campaign. Politics is a contest, and she didn't train very well. She never faced the likes of Obama or Edwards as competition before, and it shows. Seriously, you are in a state of denial if you think Hilary Clinton has a chance of winning still. She does not have the political skill and savvy to survive this.

[echeola]

What is with this Obama can't win in the General Election nonsense?

Just look at these national polls, done before the Iowa caucus too, I might add.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/national.html

You people are nuts, this guy is going to win in a Landslide!

[lastams]

Once upon a time there were issues in this campaign.
Healthcare, corruption in government, the war in Iraq.
Now that it’s become a horserace with pundits examining every nuance and miscongregated verb, the issues seem to have become secondary.
While we’re debating if Obama can sway the 35 to 50 Latino demographic,
or if Hillary’s personality will play with women under 30 West of the Mississippi,
the Congress passes a half trillion dollar omnibus spending bill,
the War in Iraq continues unabated,
Nafta expands,
and Congress passes another law placing YOUR National Guard under the Federal Department of Defense.
6 million e-mails disappear.
The CIA destruction of evidence is revealed,
And while the President thumbs his nose at Congress, we move closer to a unitary executive and a suspension of our civil rights.
Leave us hope that the good people of New Hampshire and the other early primary states remember that this election IS about issues, and that regardless of what mainstream media, including the Huffington Post, are telling us, this is NOT a two-person race.
We still have choices.
Leave us hope that we choose wisely, because soon we may have no choice at all.

[susanstudioz]

Welllllllll, I'm a New Hampshire resident. I will vote tomorrow & it will be for BARACK OBAMA!

For all the LAUGHING Republicans, I send you a SYMPATHY NOTE!

You won't be laughing long!

Too bad The Republicans are so ARCHAIC & STUPD, like all in the current Republican Admin. in Washington, DC.

How ANYONE can even THINK of voting Republican is a true MYSTERY.

Don't bother to reply to that. YOU will only pontificate your IGNORANCE & Fascist's Tendencies.

To those of you who LOVE Hillary, I send a SYMPATHY NOTE too.

I am female, white & EDUCATED, what I see in Hillary is the same ol' ARROGANCE & POOR LOSER MENTALITY I have seen & been buttressed by in The ol', REALLY EVIL Shrubster Inc.!

My wishes & prayers are for Obama & Edwards to run for the Presidency & Vice Presidency - & WIN, OF COURSE!

BTW, the name "BARACK" is also a J E W I S H name, to those of you who can't GET OVER his name!

I G N O R A N C E is a terrible thing to posses, in this, the RICHEST NATION on Earth!

There should be NO EXCUSE for it…

Obama was also a C O N S T I T U T I O N A L LAWYER for TEN YEARS! We NEED that now more than ever - we need HIM.

As a team, Obama & Edwards will restore our Country to what it ONCE was - & THOSE are ALL the GOOD/WONDERFUL parts I'm talking about that have been taken away or misused!

They will also, PROGRESS/IMPROVE our Country to meet World TOP STANDARDS, once again.

As an example: Being 29th in the Educated World, in Math & Science - is NOT a good thing! It's very SAD & also very TRUE!

THANK GOD it's in New Hampshire…

Carry on CITIZENS - you're going to DO whatever it is you're going to DO - no matter what anyone says! Good Common Sense & a MEMORY, even a RECENT MEMORY, must be hard to come by for most of you "remarking" today!

So sorry for your loss…

[bluesnot]

This is more depressing than when Clinton was the inevitable one.

[outnow]

Obama saw through the fraud of the war in Iraq.

Edwards understands that globalization is a cover for US imperialism, but the beneficiaries are not the American people at the expense of foreigners, but corporate executives at the expense of the working-class and poor people wherever they may be.

Hillary might as well be telling you about "trickle down" economics with her NAFTA and WTO and her imperialistic militarism.

American's workers from unskilled to highly educated design engineers and research scientist have been set adrift in a dog-eat-dog competition that guarantees a substantial drop in their living standards.

Increasing debt, increased military spending, decreased social services and education. NAFTA allows the global elite to rip the social contract. Bill Clinton and Robert Rubin, his treasury secretary, were supporting that.

The Clintons' "free trade" is hollowing out the U.S. industry, destroying the dollar, plunging the country into permanent dependency and unpayable debt. One of every six manufacturing jobs vanished under Bush.

NAFTA has created an invasion of unemployed Mexicans when the jobs were suddenly shifted to China by CAFTA and they crossed the border, unable to compete with subsidized corn from the US. The era of U.S. global dominance is over because of China, Japan, the EU, Canada, and Mexico because of corporate greed of our corporations.

[caywen]

I can't help but think this is karma. Think about how unfair it to get a free ride because one was married to the President. It's great that Hillary was ambitious enough to milk that, but there has to be a price to pay, and this is it. If she can get through this, she'll have earned her true stripes, but the stripes she's wearing are not well earned.

Obama's a different case altogether, so this isn't supposed to be a pro-Obama post.

[cae]

This is what I posted in response to the William Kristol NYT column:

This is my concern too. I have nothing against Barack Obama, but they will reduce the presidential contest to the likes of a high school senior (Obama) running against a former POW, 100 term sentaor, etc. (McCain) or against a 2 term governor from MA with lots of money (Romney), or mr. 9-11 former NYC DA (Guiliani). If a repub. wins because Obama has a thread-bare resume (other issues will be brought up such as national defense) I'll be so upset. Please think about the November race!

Also, they didn't have the "stop Obama express" on talk radio--it's the "stop Hillary express". Why? Because they fear her programs and her ability to get things done. Same reason they went after Pres Clinton on the affair issue--to stop his programs, pure and simple. Remember, they wanted to repeal social security, etc. That's what they're fighting for.

So the right's intensity against Hillary is because of her potential to accomplish things.

[Maxbyte]

CBS has once again polled the same group it polled in November (longitudinal glimpse). Lots of changes. Obama is at 35%, up from 19% in November.

In contrast, Clinton is now at 28%, down from 39% in November.

Edwards is essentially out of it in New Hampshire, according to CBS.

Interestingly, the Obama camp has told CBS that it does not believe it is 7 points ahead of "the pack".

Only about a quarter of likely New Hampshire voters are willing to admit that they were influenced by the Iowa Caucuses.

There is no margin of error [that I can find], probably because CBS was unable to get responses from all of the November sample.

A final note of interest in New Hampshire is that CBS was only able to find 3 respondents who admitted to being Republican. That is probably the best news of all, unless you're John McCain.

[tsugury]

US officials 'sold nuclear secrets'

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23014339-26397,00.html

[May2002]

It is ironic. After all this support for Obama (you can check all my past record), I suddenly don't like Obama any more when he is in the edge of winning.

I feel he is shrewd knowing how to win but I feel he is just another politician knowing how to put a good appearance.

He also loves power just like every other politician.

He also loves glory just like every other politician.

He is lucky that he doesn't have any baggage because he is young and he is not around long enough to have any baggage.

That's why he doesn't need to go negative, but that doesn't mean he is really that nice and decent because the bottom line he still wants to beat everybody and to grab that power.

He has used all his advantage to against Clinton such as he is fresher (but that's nothing of course he is fresh considering that he hasn't been around longer). To me this is clever, but this is another way to show that he is actually cunny.

I switch my support to Clinton because I can sense under all this "Hope," Obama is also ruthless wanting to win. And he is lucky without much record he doesn't need to go negative which makes him look better.

[OkieMon]

Hey all you Britneys out there….wha­t do you really know about your guy? Like who are obama’s most trusted advisors other than a bunch of pop-culture wannabes? You know who Hill’s most trusted advisor is…Bill….t­he best president of our generation who really knows the ropes.

[May2002]

It is ironic. After all this support for Obama (you can check all my past record), I suddenly don't like Obama any more when he is in the edge of winning.

I feel he is shrewd knowing how to win but I feel he is just another politician knowing how to put a good appearance.

He also loves power just like every other politician.

He also loves glory just like every other politician.

He is lucky that he doesn't have any baggage because he is young and he is not around long enough to have any baggage.

That's why he doesn't need to go negative, but that doesn't mean he is really that nice and decent because the bottom line he still wants to beat everybody and to grab that power.

He has used all his advantage to against Clinton such as he is fresher (but that's nothing of course he is fresh considering that he hasn't been around longer). To me this is clever, but this is another way to show that he is actually cunny.

I switch my support to Clinton because I can sense under all this "Hope," Obama is also ruthless wanting to win. And he is lucky without much record he doesn't need to go negative which makes him look better.