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Article: McCain has the edge with white men
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2008
- Author:
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THE FIRST major poll of the general election by NBC News/Wall
Street Journal shows Barack Obama with a surprisingly small lead
over John McCain, 47 percent to 41 percent. Another poll by ABC/
Washington Post has the identical margin.
The NBC/WSJ poll also reveals the mood of two large voting
audiences, Hillary Clinton voters and white men.
Clinton voters aren't the problem. In the primaries, exit polls
suggested that many Clinton supporters would not vote for Obama in
November. But the NBC/WSJ poll shows Clinton voters, by a 3-to-1
ratio (61 percent to 19 percent), are planning to vote for Obama
over McCain.
Obama's got an old Democratic problem: white men. No Democrat
running for president ...
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