Obama Up In New York Poll
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- June
- 11
So much for the possibility of a tight presidential race in New York.
A Quinnipiac poll Wednesday debunks that theory, showing that presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has expanded his lead in New York over likely Republican candidate Sen. John McCain.
But even in New York, voters don’t want Obama to pick New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has his running mate.
By a margin of 48 percent to 42 percent, voters said that Obama should not pick Clinton.
Obama tops McCain, the poll found, 50 percent to 36 percent in the heavily blue New York, which has about 5 million registered Democrats to 3 million Republicans.
In an April 18 poll, when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was still in the race, Obama had a 47 percent to 39 percent lead over McCain.
Obama also received strong support among white voters, receiving 42 percent of the vote compared to 43 percent for McCain, the poll found.
African-American voters back Obama 87 percent to 6 percent. Obama also leads 59 percent to 29 percent among voters under age 45 and 45 – 40 among voters over age 45.
As for Clinton on Obama’s ticket, Democrats support the idea 53 percent to 35 percent, while Republicans oppose it 62 – 27 percent and independent voters oppose it 53 – 41 percent.
“Our favorite daughter, Sen. Hillary Clinton, won’t be on top of the ballot, but New York is still solidly blue. Sen. Barack Obama wins in a walk,†said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
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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. 
