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Hillary?s Wrong Numbers: Obama Polls Up, Clinton Funds Down -- Daily Intel -- New York News Blog -- New York Magazine

Hillary's Wrong Numbers: Obama Polls Up, Clinton Funds Down

To anyone tracking delegates, it's been clear for more than a month that Hillary Clinton's candidacy is in mortal danger. But as long as she was battling Barack Obama at the polls every week, she could hope to control the narrative of the Democratic race, even if she was losing individual contests. And so her campaign kept sprouting new raisons d'tre: the wisdom of superdelegates, the enfranchisement of Florida and Michigan, her supposed ability to carry big states.

No more. We?re now halfway through the six weeks between Mississippi and Pennsylvania, and this long interlude has washed away Clinton's spin. Now her campaign is not only over. It?s obviously over....

...Wright cost Obama. From the first week in March (when the Wright controversy first broke) to the third, his positive rating held steady at a rather incredible 82 percent among black voters, but dropped from 47 percent to 42 percent among whites, according to NBC/Wall Street Journal polls. But Wright?s wake cut Clinton even worse: During that same period, she fell twelve points among African-Americans, from 63 percent to 51 percent, and dropped five points among white voters, too, from 39 percent to a Bush-like 34 percent. Clinton now performs particularly horribly across the upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest, where white Democrats trend progressive and like Obama. In Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin, she now trails John McCain while Obama leads him, and she is doing markedly poorer in Connecticut and Virginia, too....

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Clinton Now Slipping Even in Pennsylvania -- Daily Intel -- New York News Blog -- New York Magazine