McCain, Obama ahead in Georgia

ATLANTA, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama hold 6 point leads in the races for their party's U.S. presidential nominations in Georgia, a poll indicates.

Among the Republicans running for the White House, the Arizona senator has a 6 point lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Obama, the junior senator from Illinois has the same lead over New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic contest, a McClatchy-MSNBC poll indicated Sunday.

The poll indicates McCain is drawing 33 percent support among likely Republican primary voters while Romney has 27 percent support and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has 18 percent.

The poll indicates 17 percent of likely GOP voters are undecided, McClatchy Newspapers reported Sunday.

In the Democratic race, Obama leads Clinton, 47 percent to 41 percent with 10 percent of likely Democratic voters still undecided.

"For the Democrats, (Clinton is) ahead everywhere except Georgia. But the leads aren't so big that it's a slam dunk," said Brad Coker, the managing partner of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, which conducted the poll.

McCain, however, has broad support in the 21 states holding their nominating contests Tuesday, Coker said.

"For the Republicans, McCain is clearly the front-runner. He's ahead in every state," he said.

The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 5 percent. The poll did not cite the number of respondents or the dates it was conducted.