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Obama competitive against McCain with key voters
Barack Obama is competing strongly against Republican John McCain for women, Catholics and other groups that have shunned him in the Democratic primaries but will be pivotal in this fall's presidential race, early polling shows.Significant blocs of voters who have been closely contested in recent presidential elections or veered from one party to the other, making them true swing groups have leaned toward Obama's rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the primaries. Besides women and Catholics, these include the elderly, the less educated and suburbanites, leading Clinton to argue she is her party's stronger candidate. Even so, polls this month show the Illinois senator assuming he clinches the Democratic nomination leading McCain among women, running even among Catholics and suburbanites and trailing with people over age 65. Results vary by poll for those without college degrees. And though Obama trails decisively with a group that has strongly preferred Clinton whites without college degrees he's doing no worse than the past two Democratic presidential candidates. Posted by: Fred 2008-05-29 |
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