Californina Numbers Show Obama Wins California More Easily Than Clinton

Excerpts LA Times report "Obama would take California in November, Times/KTLA poll finds" are indented:

Less than four months after losing the California primary, Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain in projected November general election matchups, a new Los Angeles Times/KTLA Poll has found.

Obama, the Illinois senator who has inched close to his party's nomination, would defeat McCain by seven points if the election were held today. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose fortunes have faltered since her Feb. 5 drubbing of Obama in California, would eke out only a three-point victory, the poll found.

 

This also shows that Obama would have actually won the California primary if it had been held at it's  regular date and would have ended up the kingmaker instead of lost in the jumble of Super Tuesday.  The early date is better for candidates that have big name recognition no matter how unsatisfactory they really are.

..the survey could not measure whether time had eased partisan passions or whether Californians were predisposed to embrace either Democrat.

Actually, though the survey itself didn't show the difference, the change in likely voting, since Super Tuesday shows that people in the state were predisposed to select Hillary by the poor reporting TV News and does on the race especially early the primary season.  I'm sure that Schwarzenegger is counting on that for 2012 if McCain loses in November.

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