California Sized Hole in Clintons’ Big State Argument
Trailing Obama signficantly in pledge delegates and popular vote the Clintons have been arguing that they would do better in “Big States” critical to possible Democrat electoral success than Obama. Unfortunately for the Clintons’ hopes of free room and board at the White House a mid-March poll by the Public Policy Institute of California, reported in the Baltimore Sun, shows Obama stronger than Clinton among likely voters in California – with Obama favored by 9 percentage points over Republican Sen. John McCain and:
If the election were held today, California’s likely voters would favor Obama over McCain by 49 to 40 percent, according to the survey. A Clinton-McCain match-up is a virtual tie: 46 percent Clinton, 43 percent McCain.
Given Hillary Clinton’s argument that the big states are so important shouldn’t she step aside so that the Democrats can go with Barack Obama favored by the public in California?
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