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General Election Polls: Who Does Better Against McCain State by State?

 
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Both beat McCain ≥ 5%
McCain beats both ≥ 5%
Obama > Clinton by ≥ 5%
Obama > Clinton by < 5%
Clinton > Obama by < 5%
Clinton > Obama by ≥ 5%
 
In brown states, Obama does better than Clinton against McCain. In pink states Clinton does better.
Sometimes this means: does not lose as badly
But white centers are statistical ties.

Democratic primaries Republican primaries Obama vs. McCain Clinton vs. McCain


News from the Votemaster

Another former DNC chairman, Paul Kirk, Jr., has endorsed Barack Obama. Kirk is a superdelegate, but far more important is the message his endorsement (and that of former DNC chairman Joe Andrew yesterday) sends to the other supers. DNC chairmen think, eat, and breathe politics 24 hours a day (unlike senators, who sometimes get a break to legislate or filibuster). Nobody takes that job for the money (it pays only $105,000 a year). DNC chairs care about only one thing: winning elections. The other supers will pay attention to these endorsements more than those of random congressmen. Hillary Clinton's highest profile endorser recently is Gov. Mike Easley (D-NC) While that may have some impact in the upcoming North Carolina primary, Easley is not a national figure like Kirk and Andrew.

Guam caucused today to choose its eight pledged delegates (each with half a vote) to the DNC. Early reports suggest that Obama and Clinton will each get four delegates. Guam also has five superdelegates, each with a full vote.

Today's special election in LA-06 is being watched with bated breath. The seat is open because Richard Baker (R) resigned from the House to take a multimillion dollar job as a lobbyist for the hedge fund industry. This Baton Rouge-based district has a PVI of R+7 so the normal procedure for elections here is that the candidates show up, the Republican wins and goes off to Washington, the Democrat sulks off licking his wounds, and it's back to business as usual. Only this time the DCCC has poured $1.2 million into the race for Democrat Don Cazayoux and the NRCC has poured a comparable amount in for Republican Woody Jenkins. Most of the ads are negative. Jenkins' ads call Cazayoux (rhymes with "tax you") a "liberal" and try to tie him to the national Democratic party so everyone is watching closely to see if the old magic still works in the deep south. A poll released yesterday put Cazayoux ahead of Jenkins 50% to 41%.

While LA-06 is the only House race today, there are 435 of them in November and CQ Politics has an excellent rundown of the key races in the Northeast, Midwest, South, and West.

The pollsters who run the most state polls are Rasmussen and SurveyUSA. If you want to see what Scott Rasmussen looks like, look at the video analysis on this page.

We have a new batch of primary polls from Indiana and North Carolina today. It looks like Barack Obama will win North Carolina by single digits (down from double digits a few weeks ago). It also looks like Hillary Clinton will win Indiana by single digits. A few weeks ago, Indiana looked like a tie. All in all, Clinton has improved her standing in both states.

State Pollster End date Clinton Obama
Indiana ARG May 01 53% 44%
Indiana IPFW Apr. 30 52% 45%
Indiana Insider Advantage May 01 47% 40%
Indiana Rasmussen Apr. 29 46% 41%
Indiana TeleResearch Apr. 29 48% 38%
Indiana Zogby May 01 42% 42%
North Carolina ARG May 01 41% 52%
North Carolina Insider Advantage May 01 44% 49%
North Carolina Mason-Dixon Apr. 29 42% 49%
North Carolina Rasmussen May 01 40% 49%
North Carolina Research 2000 May 01 44% 51%
North Carolina Zogby May 01 34% 50%

We have a new general election poll in New York. Both Democrats beat McCain easily here.

State Clinton McCain Start End Pollster
New York 60% 31% May 01 May 01 Rasmussen
State Obama McCain Start End Pollster
New York 52% 35% May 01 May 01 Rasmussen

The polling results for all primaries and caucuses are available as a Web page and in .csv format.

Besides Kirk's announcement mentioned above, several other supers went public yesterday, netting Clinton about two delegates.

Delegates

Source Clinton Obama BHO-HRC
Washington Post 1593 1724 +131
NY Times 1599 1733 +134
AP 1605 1736 +131
CNN 1597 1734 +137
ABC 1599 1738 +139
CBS 1598 1731 +133
MSNBC 1603 1738 +135

Needed to win: 2025

Here is another source for delegate totals.



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