The South Rises Again…for Obama
A new TIME poll that has Sen. Obama narrowing the gap with Sen. Clinton to a mere seven points has several even more exciting statistics just below the surface, as the New York Post reports today:
The Time poll reveals southerners scrambling away from Clinton. She now leads Obama in the region by just 4 points — down from a whopping 23-point edge in the South last month.
While Clinton and Obama remained deadlocked among blacks, she holds a 7-point lead among whites and a 25-point advantage with evangelical Christians.
The poll of Democrats and left-leaning independents showed Clinton wielding a 9-point edge (31 percent to 22 percent) among registered Democrats but trailing Obama among independents, 27 percent to 25 percent.
The news is even better in the head-to-head matchups with Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani, where Sen. Obama once again wins the day:
And in head-to-head match-ups, Obama edges GOP front-runner Rudy Giuliani (44 percent to 43 percent) while Clinton loses to him (47 percent to 43 percent).
