Should Clinton End Campaign If Tuesday Goes Poorly?
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A Siena College poll asked New Yorkers that question, and 45 percent said Sen. Hillary Clinton should end her presidential bid if she continues to trail Barack Obama after Tuesday’s primaries.
Thirty-eight percent said she should continue to fight on, and 15 percent were undecided.
“Even 28 percent of voters who describe themselves as Clinton supporters, think she should end her candidacy if she continues to trail Obama after tomorrow,” said Steven Greenberg, a Siena Poll spokesman. “Not surprisingly, more than two-thirds of Obama supporters favor Clinton dropping out if she trails.”
The poll shows that two-thirds of Democrats and more than half of independent voters are satisfied with the choices Americans have for president in 2008. A majority of Republicans are not satisfied. Four in five voters say they are closely or very closely following the race.
“While more than 80 percent of New York Republicans and Democrats have followed the presidential campaign closely, Democrats overwhelmingly liked the candidates they got to choose from, while Republicans did not,” Greenberg said. “Suburban voters were the most satisfied, upstate voters were evenly divided.”
In New York, Clinton’s favorability rating is 54-39 percent, up slightly from two weeks ago’s 53-43 percent. Obama’s 56-31 percent favorable rating is down slightly from 60-30 percent. John McCain’s favorable rating fell to 48-41 percent, down from 55-34 percent.
The telephone poll was conducted February 25-27 to 624 registered New York voters. It had a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
