InsiderAdvantage Survey Shows Shift in Momentum Towards Clinton in Texas

Insider Advantage ^ | 2-28-08 | Staff

[Anti-Hillary]

February 28, 2008 — InsiderAdvantage’s latest survey in Texas shows a shift, at least temporarily, in momentum in the Democratic race for president. An earlier InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion survey conducted Monday night for the Southern Political Report showed Sen. Barack Obama with a one-point lead in the contest.

But a survey of 591 registered voters who are likely to vote in the Democratic primary in Texas conducted last night (February 27) indicates that Sen. Hillary Clinton has regained the lead in a race that remains within the survey’s margin of error. The results were:

Clinton: 47% Obama: 43% Undecided: 10%

The survey has been weighted for age, race, gender and political affiliation. Margin of error +/- 4%

InsiderAdvantage/Creator’s Syndicate’s Matt Towery:

“This is a classic sign that a race might be starting to turn. We see the undecided voters increasing and unsettled numbers in key age brackets. Moreover, Clinton has expanded her lead among Hispanic voters, while holding onto white votes. She has dropped slightly among women, but has gained among men.

“Let me stress that these polls are snapshots of the moment. I am not yet willing to say that there is a definitive trend, such as the one that our polling on Super Tuesday detected for Mike Huckabee in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.

“But Southern states – and Texas is well within the scope of coverage for our Southern Political Report, founded by Hastings Wyman in Washington 30 years ago – tend to have more complex demographic weightings in polls than most other states.

“If these trends continue over the coming days, then it might be fair to say the race is slowly drifting Clinton’s way. For now, I think it’s at least fair to say that has turned momentum, to some degree, back in her direction.”

[Anti-Hillary]

Go Hillary!! All the way to the Convention!!!

It will be better than a UFC cage match!

[kingattax]

this has desperation and bovine excrement written all over it

[ncalburt]

lets keep our fingers crossed .
a long drawn out nasty brokered convention would be a slice of heaven .

[Atchafalaya]

Republicans voting for Clinton hoping for a bloody convention fight. Pass the popcorn.

[ari-freedom]

ha I predicted this! a surprise come from behind victory (everyone forgot NH???) in texas and hillary just drags out the pain for democrats until the convention

[AlternateEgo]

I hope the “Super Delegates” have to cast the deciding votes. This will definitely cause some hard feelings for the supporters of whichever candidate loses, which could really help us in the general election.

[ladyinred]

Just seeing polls on Fox saying the opposite.

[GOPJ]

Yeah, it has that “feel” of Clinton.

[Pikachu_Dad]

They have noise in their polling numbers and they decide that shows the race is going one way or the other?

Pathetic.

[Fee]

I think Clinton will take TX but lose OH. Less latinos in OH. Blacks are going solidly for Obama.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Hillary is DOOMED, The wicked Witch is dead, She was Liquidated by her history and a scrappy marxist with the gift of gab. This is the end of Hillary and Bill. She will drop March 5 and will be beaten next time she runs in New York. Don’t worry about her, Obama will make her appoint her to a good government job—or McCain will.

[jas3]

this has desperation and bovine excrement written all over it

Besides bovine excrement written on it, I also detect:

acarine, accipitrine, acipenserine, aedine, alaudine, alcelaphine, alectorine, anatine, anguine, anopheline, anserine, antilopine, aquiline, arietine, asinine, atherine, bisontine, bombycine, bubaline, buteonine, cameline, cancrine, canine, capreoline, caprine, cathartine, ceratorhine, cervine, charadrine, ciconine, colubrine, columbine, coralline, corvine, coturnine, cricetine, crotaline, cuculine, cygnine, cypseline, delphine, didelphine, didine, draconine, elaphine, elapine, elephantine, emberizine, equine, falconine, feline, formicine, fringilline, fuliguline, galline, garruline, gazelline, giraffine, glirine, halcyonine, herpestine, hippocampine, hippopotamine, hippotigrine, hircine, hirudine, hirundine, homarine, hominine, hyenine, hylobatine, hystricine, icterine, lapine, larine, lemurine, leonine, leporine, limacine, lumbricine, lupine, lutrine, macropodine, manatine, meleagrine, microtine, milvine, mimine, murine, muscicapine, musteline, myoxine, myrmecine, myrmecophagine, noctilionine, octopine, orygine, oscine, ostracine, otarine, ovine, pantherine, pardine, passerine, patelline, pavonine, pediculine, penduline, percesocine, perdicine, phalacrocoracine, phasianine, phocaenine, phocine, pieridine, pierine, piscine, porcine, procyonine, psittacine, pteropine, pulicine, pullastrine, pyrrhuline, pyrrhuloxine, pythonine, rangiferine, ranine, rupicaprine, salamandrine, sciurine, scolopacine, serpentine, soricine, suilline, talpine, taurine, termitine, testudine, tigrine, tolypeutine, trochiline, troglodytine, turdine, ursine, vespine, viperine, vituline, viverrine, volucrine, vulpine, vulturine, zebrine, zibeline excrement as well.

jas3

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Attention Hippies! Be sure to go to Denver this summer to protest for your cause outside the convention! You’ll get on television and be famous!

[kingattax]

LOL....wow...one hell of a post

[HHFi]

Maybe so. I'm in Texas, where we have been getting the full Obamarama for about the past two weeks; and I can testify that while he seemed kind of impressive in small doses, the longer you spend around him, the less there seems to be to him. There's a commercial running here in Dallas about every five minutes that features a really catchy, guitar-driven rock song, illustrated with clips of dewy-eyed Obama worshippers at rallies and vocal clips of him intoning disembodied platitudes such as, "We want an end to this war...and diplomacy...We CAN save the planet...create jobs..." Just a lot of vaguely positive generalities that say and mean nothing. The more I see it, the more annoyed I get.

Since it's a catchy guitar rock tune with words that sound good on the surface but make no sense, I have dubbed Obama "The REM Candidate."

[gridlock]

I gotta bad feeling about this...

I think folks hoping for a brokered convention are getting too cute by half.

Politics ain’t bean-bag, but it sure as Hell ain’t brain surgery, either. Hoping to spin the wheel and have it come up “Brokered Convention” is alway a long shot. Mrs. Clinton could win this damn thing outright, or at least come into the convention with enough Superdelegates in hand that the result is predetermined.

If that happened, we would be well and truly screwed.