As the general election campaign season draws near, just 38% of American voters say they are better off than they were four years ago. Fifty-two percent (52%) say they are not. And that’s one of the more upbeat indicators of the public mood.
In a story line that no one could have predicted a few months ago, John McCain is expected to emerge from Super Tuesday as the big winner.
Heading into Super Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama has momentum and appears to be gaining ground on Senator Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
As the Super Tuesday campaigning winds down, New York Senator Hillary Clinton’s lead in neighboring New Jersey has fallen to single digits.
As Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton settle in for a long contest that may not end until the Democratic convention, many conversations naturally drift to the question of which candidate would fare better against likely Republican nominee John McCain.
In California, Republican Primary Voters are evenly divided between John McCain and Mitt Romney.
In California’s Democratic Presidential Primary, Barack Obama now holds a statistically insignificant one-point lead over Hillary Clinton.
In Georgia’s Democratic Presidential Primary, Barack Obama has taken command of the race. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds Obama with 52% support while Clinton attracts 37%.
Even after receiving the endorsement of Georgia’s two United States Senators, John McCain finds himself in a tight three-way race in that Southern State’s Primary. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds McCain attracting 31% of the vote while Mitt Romney picks up 29% and Mike Huckabee gets 28%.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Arizona shows a tight race with Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama by five percentage points.
In his home state of Arizona, John McCain leads Mitt Romney by nine percentage points. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found McCain earning 43% of the vote while Romney attracts 34%.
In New York’s Democratic Presidential Primary, Hillary Clinton has an eighteen point lead over Barack Obama.
John McCain appears poised for victory in New York State’s Republican Presidential Primary. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows McCain with 49% of the vote, nineteen points ahead of Mitt Romney who attracts 30%.
Matching a trend seen throughout the nation, Barack Obama is gaining ground on Hillary Clinton in Missouri. Over the past week, Obama has picked up ten points on Clinton but still trails by nine in a poll conducted five days before the Primary.
The three-way race to win Missouri’s Republican Presidential Primary couldn’t get any closer—three candidates are within four points of each other in a poll with a four-point margin of sampling error.
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Barack Obama in Alabama has fallen ten points in a week.
The Republican Presidential Primary in Tennessee is very competitive. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found John McCain narrowly on top with 32% support followed closely by Mitt Romney at 29% and Mike Huckabee at 23%. Ron Paul attracts 8% of the vote while 5% still plan to vote for some other candidate.
In Tennessee, Hillary Clinton leads Barack Obama by fourteen percentage points. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey conducted Wednesday night found Clinton with 49% of the Volunteer State vote while Obama earned 35%.
John McCain has an eight percentage point lead over Mike Huckabee in Alabama’s Republican Presidential Primary.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Democratic primary voters in Illinois shows favorite sone Senator Barack Obama dominating his opponent with 60% of votes. Senator Hillary Clinton comes in a very distant second with 24%.
