Obama Chips Away at Clinton’s Lead in Pennsylvania, Poll Finds
By Nadine Elsibai
April 8 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama trails Hillary Clinton by 6 percentage points among Pennsylvania’s likely primary voters, a Quinnipiac University poll found.
Clinton, a New York senator, received 50 percent support compared with Obama’s 44 percent in the poll conducted April 3-6. That’s down from the 50-41 percent lead Clinton had in a similar poll released April 2. The biggest shifts for Obama, an Illinois senator, came among female and white voters, the poll found.
Obama is “knocking on the door of a major political upset in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary,” Clay Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement. “Obama is not only building on his own constituencies, but is taking away voters in Senator Hillary Clinton’s strongest areas.”
Pennsylvania holds its contest April 22. The survey by Hamden, Connecticut-based Quinnipiac included 1,340 likely voters in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.
To contact the reporter on this story: Nadine Elsibai in Washington at nelsibai@bloomberg.net.