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Hillary widens lead over Obama
07/08/2007 20:26 - (SA)
Washington - Hillary Clinton further widened her lead over Illinois Senator Barack Obama in her attempt to secure the Democratic Party's nomination for the 2008 presidential race, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup poll on Tuesday.
The poll shows Clinton at 48% - up eight percentage points from a similar poll three weeks ago - and Obama at 26%, down two points. Third is former North Carolina senator John Edwards, with 12%.
The survey, which polled 1 012 adults and has three point margin of error, was carried out August 3-5 after an exchange between Clinton and Obama over handling foreign policy that both sides sought to highlight.
A smaller sub-sample of the poll, querying 490 Democrats and independents about who would do a better job in certain foreign policy realms, showed a strong lead across the board for the wife of former president Bill Clinton.
Sixty percent said she would do a better job handling international terrorism and 56% said she would be better in the role of commander in chief of the military than Obama.
In those areas and in questions about the war in Iraq and relations with countries unfriendly to the United States, Clinton came out with a 20-27 point lead over Obama. The subpoll's margin of error was five percentage points.
Among Republicans, the poll showed former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani ahead, as he has been for months, at 33%.
Second is a man who has not formally declared his intention to run - TV actor and former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson, with 21%, followed by Arizona Senator John McCain with 16% and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney with eight percent.
- AFP
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