Carolina poll gives Clinton slight lead
Published: May 1, 2008 at 2:03 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 1 (UPI) -- A poll shows Sen. Hillary Clinton with a narrow lead over Sen. Barack Obama in North Carolina but the pollsters say black voters could be underrepresented.
InsiderAdvantage pegged Clinton, D-N.Y., with 44 percent of the vote to Obama's 42 percent ahead of Tuesday's North Carolina primary; however the poll said the African-American vote is uncertain and may indicate that Obama, D-Ill., is doing better than the numbers indicate.
"Our polling generally does not indicate the eventual compression of black voters that Obama usually enjoys just before Election Day," InsiderAdvantage's Matt Towery told The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer Wednesday. "If that happens, my guess is that he will pull this out."
Towery said that regardless, the results indicate likely from Obama's association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and will force Obama to "split resources between Indiana and North Carolina."
The poll had the undecideds in North Carolina at 14 percent.
The InsiderAdvantage poll surveyed 571 likely votes with a margin of error of 3.8 percentage points.
InsiderAdvantage pegged Clinton, D-N.Y., with 44 percent of the vote to Obama's 42 percent ahead of Tuesday's North Carolina primary; however the poll said the African-American vote is uncertain and may indicate that Obama, D-Ill., is doing better than the numbers indicate.
"Our polling generally does not indicate the eventual compression of black voters that Obama usually enjoys just before Election Day," InsiderAdvantage's Matt Towery told The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer Wednesday. "If that happens, my guess is that he will pull this out."
Towery said that regardless, the results indicate likely from Obama's association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and will force Obama to "split resources between Indiana and North Carolina."
The poll had the undecideds in North Carolina at 14 percent.
The InsiderAdvantage poll surveyed 571 likely votes with a margin of error of 3.8 percentage points.
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