Goodness Gracious, Both Obama And Clinton Hold Edge Over McCain

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(Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:33:33 -0500) --- From The Washington Post, 3/6/08:
www.washingtonpost.com

Both Obama And Clinton Hold Edge Over McCain

By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta
Washington Post Staff Writers

Thursday, March 6, 2008; Page A09

Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) leads McCain, who captured the delegates
needed to claim the Republican nomination Tuesday night, by 12
percentage points among all adults in the poll; Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton (N.Y.) holds a six-point lead over the GOP nominee.

Both Democrats are buoyed by moderates and independents when going
head to head with McCain and benefit from sustained negative public
assessments of President Bush and the war in Iraq.

About two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling
his job and think the war was not worth fighting, and most hold those
positions "strongly."

A slim majority also doubt that the United States is making progress
toward restoring civil order in Iraq, even as McCain and others extol
recent successes there.

These views are closely related to voters' choices: McCain does poorly
against Clinton and Obama among those who disapprove of the president
and those opposing the war.

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