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Article: Canadians Prefer Obama.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- April 8, 2008
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A new Canadian Press Harris/Decima survey asked Canadians who they hoped to see become the next US President. The results show:
* A plurality (39%) hope Barack Obama becomes the next US President, followed by 30% who prefer Hillary Clinton, and 8% John McCain. The rest offered no opinion.
* This represents a major swing in preference away from Senator Clinton in the last three months. A poll in early January saw Senator Clinton with an 11-point edge over Senator Obama with this lead dropping to 3 points by mid-February, followed by the swing to Obama in front by nine points today.
* Senator Obama is most popular in Ontario ...