Democrats Support “Dream Ticket”
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By a 60 – 33 percent margin, Democrats say Barack Obama should pick Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate, a national Quinnipiac Poll found today.
Also, Obama or Clinton leads Arizona Sen. John McCain. Obama leads McCain, the GOP nominee, 47 – 40 percent while Clinton is up 46 – 41 percent, the poll found.
Among Democrats, Obama is ahead slightly as 45 percent say they want to see him win the nomination, while 41 percent want to see Clinton as the nominee.
And Democrats say 63 – 34 percent Clinton should stay in the race.
“Party leaders may be cringing over the potential damage to Democratic chances in November from the endless primary campaign, but two-thirds of the rank-and-file think Clinton ought to keep battling,” said Quinnipiac pollster Mickey Carroll.
“The ‘dream ticket?’ Three out of five Democrats like the idea.”
Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo yesterday endorsed the idea of an Obama-Clinton ticket.
“Look, what we want more than anything is to win, and to win you’re going to need all the votes she gets and you don’t,” said Cuomo on CNN’s The Situation Room. “The best way to do it is to invite her on the ticket. If, in fact, at the end of process you win, which it looks like you might very well, then why not add her to the ticket?”
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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. 
