Clinton closing in Oregon polls [4-5 points with 8 percent undecided and 6 percent no comment]

Boston Globe ^ | May 19, 2008 | Foon Rhee

[Zakeet]

The latest pre-primary polls suggest that Hillary Clinton has faint hopes of stalling Barack Obama's march to the Democratic nomination.

Obama had been leading by double digits in Oregon, where he expects to win on Tuesday, enabling him to declare victory in the pledged delegate race and perhaps sew up the nomination.

But the latest polls in Oregon show Clinton within striking distance. Obama leads 45 percent to 41 percent with 8 percent undecided and 6 percent refusing a response, according to a Suffolk University survey released this morning. An American Research Group survey puts Obama's lead at 50 percent to 45 percent.

Obama, however, appears to be confident of victory. Today, he does not plan to campaign in Oregon, instead stumping in Montana, which votes June 3. He has already scheduled a huge outdoor victory rally Tuesday night in Iowa, a battleground state in November and where his victory in the January caucuses propelled him to the front of the pack.

Clinton, on the other hand, continues to lead handily in every poll in Kentucky, which also votes Tuesday. In a Suffolk survey released today, she leads Obama 51 percent to 25 percent, followed by John Edwards with 6 percent, "uncommitted" with 5 percent, while 11 percent were undecided.

But she isn't taking any chances and hopes to win big enough to cut into Obama's lead in the total popular vote, campaigning all day in the Bluegrass State. She plans her primary night rally in Louisville.

The tale of two states voting Tuesday demonstrates again the demographic divide in the Democratic race -- blue-collar voters for Clinton, more affluent and more educated voters for Obama.

[Zakeet]

It ain't over yet!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Let’s get out there and make a really Big CHAOS!

[TornadoAlley3]

[RoseofTexas]

I hate to say this, but I hope the SHE-DEVIL wins Oregon instead of the oSamassiah! I fear the muslim more than the beast!

[Diogenesis]

How dare those racist Oregonians refuse to vote for the Obamessiah?

[blondee123]

Sad day in America, when I can almost say I’d vote for her over the other two candidates!!!

[Blue Turtle]

IMPOSSIBLE!! I saw the photograph of OBAMA and his 80,000 strong cult.

[SeaHawkFan]

Obama gets 70,000 to a rally in Portland and Hillary has to go to a small town for appearances. She’ll get clobbered in OR.

[SoFloFreeper]

Look, I am sure His Holiness the Obama will win Oregon. The Drive Bys have declared him to be the One We’ve Been Waiting For.

[xDGx]

The same cult (60,000 claimed at the time) that packed the Portland Park for Kerry in 2004?

Hillary all the way to Denver!

[kempo]

Yea, Obama was out there dividing up the loaves of bread and the fishes. I saw the pictures.

[gridlock]

Not to be a back-seat campaign manager, but Hillary should have pulled out all the stops in Oregon. Winning big in Kentucky, while important, is not going to get the job done. Winning in Oregon, though, would make people sit up and take notice.

If Obama limps into the Convention after losing 12 of the last 13 contests, he would have a hard time arguing that he is the strongest candidate.

Of course, it was hard to see last week that Hillary might have a shot in Oregon. It would have been a bold move to challenge there.

I gotta say, Clinton's February collapse will go down as the biggest political fumble in modern history. She is a stronger candidate in every way, and it was negligent in the extreme that her campaign was so ill-equipped to deal with the contests after Super Duper Tuesday.

Patti Solis Doyle will be remembered forever as the Bill Buckner of American politics.

[mware]

Notice, not ONE American flag is the crowd.

[HamiltonJay]

I openly admit I haven’t been following Oregon closely, so I don’t know if I should take this poll as meaningful, or if it is just the press trying to create interest to sell more papers/keep more people watching.

However, if HillBilly does somehow manage to pull out a win, or even make it very close in Oregon, a bastion of elite liberalism, where Fauxbama should be strongest... Then there is no doubt left to anyone with a few neurons firing that is honest with themselves (a hard trait to find in rabid leftists) that Fauxbama will not only lose the general election, but will lose it by margins competing with McGovern.

[Diogenesis]

All the American flags in THAT crowd are 'underfoot' (in the Ayers way).

[xDGx]

Obama keeps trying to bury her and Hillary RodhamZombie keeps rising up and haunting him

ALL THE WAY TO DENVER BABY!!!

[VOA]

I gotta say, Clinton's February collapse will go down as the biggest
political fumble in modern history.

I think that Hillary! underestimated the compulsive drive that
Democrats/liberals have to earn more "Liberal Merit Badges".

I suspect they feel they already earned the "Liberal Merit Badge
for Supporting a Female In The White House" after Hillary!
got her two terms, even if she wasn't elected President.

Now they've seen their chance to earn the "Liberal Merit Badge
For Electing An Inexperienced Senator-Of-Color To The Presidency".

Hillary's Presidential Bid "went that-a-way" in my guess.

[UCANSEE2]

“Look, I am sure His Holiness the Obama will win Oregon. The Drive Bys have declared him to be the One We’ve Been Waiting For.”

Or the ONE some have been waiting for.... to climb out of a well, and destroy the evil dhimmis.

[cake_crumb]

"Obama, however, appears to be confident of victory. Today, he does not plan to campaign in Oregon, instead stumping in Montana, which votes June 3. He has already scheduled a huge outdoor victory rally Tuesday night in Iowa, a battleground state in November and where his victory in the January caucuses propelled him to the front of the pack."

Arrogant little bugger, isn't he?

[Petronski]

He has already scheduled a huge outdoor victory rally Tuesday night in Iowa...

Not Oregon?

Pretty arrogant, not to mention rude.