Poll: Either Dem would win prez race in NY
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- April
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Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama lead Sen. John McCain in the general-election race for president in New York, according to a poll released today.
The poll from Quinnipiac University found Clinton would beat the Republican Arizona senator 49 percent to 37 percent, while Obama’s margin was a little smaller: 47 percent to 39 percent.
McCain is all but assured the Republican nomination while Obama and Clinton are still fighting to become the Democratic candidate.
The poll found that New York white voters were evenly split between McCain and Clinton and favored the Republican over Obama. But African-Americans overwhelmingly favored Clinton and Obama, a freshman senator from Illinois.
“In presidential politics, New York shows the same ethnic split that we’ve seen in other states,’’ said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
The survey of 1,257 registered voters was conducted April 14 and 15. It has an error margin of plus or minus 2.8 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. 
