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Obama up by 20 in RI
7:08AM ON
08/27/2008
BY
Dave Segal
There’s a lot of concern in RI’s Camp Obama that latent racism could mean a slimmer-than-usual Dem victory here come November. So this is pretty good news. (Though, of course, some polls from the primary were notoriously off the mark.)
PROVIDENCE — President Bush is unpopular in Rhode Island, and Democrat Barack Obama holds a large lead here over Republican John McCain, according to a new Brown University poll.
Supporting the conventional wisdom of the 2008 presidential race, the Aug. 18-20 survey by Brown Prof. Marion Orr estimates Obama’s lead in Rhode Island at more than 20 points, 50.6 percent to 30 percent. Twenty percent of voters claim to be undecided. The survey of 548 registered voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent. The survey was conducted before Obama named Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate.
Ocean State voters have not favored a Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan’s landslide reelection in 1984. Four years ago, Democrat John Kerry beat Republican President Bush in Rhode Island by 21 points, 60.5 percent to 39.4.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:21PM
PING Says:
Doesn’t this tell you how far off mainstream America that RI is?
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