WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democrats
significantly favor New York Senator Hillary Clinton over Illinois Senator
Barack Obama for the party's presidential nomination in the wake of a dispute
over the handling of foreign policy, according to a poll published Tuesday.
The USA TODAY/Gallup poll, taken Friday through
Sunday, found that Clinton has widened her lead over Obama. Her support was at
48 percent, up 8 percentage points from three weeks ago, while Obama's support
was down two percentage points at 26 percent.
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary
Rodham Clinton listens as Senator Barack Obama speaks during a
debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire June 3, 2007.
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The 22-point gap between the two is nearly double the
margin found in the July 12-15 poll.
Among Democrats and independents who "lean"
Democratic, former North Carolina senator John Edwards is at 12 percent.
Among Republicans, the race is stable: former New
York mayor Rudy Giuliani at 33 percent, former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson
at 21 percent, Arizona Sen. John McCain at 16 percent and former Massachusetts
governor Mitt Romney at 8 percent.
The Democratic race is much closer in the states
where opening contests will be held and campaigning is already fierce, the USA
Today newspaper reported.
In the survey, Democrats and Democratic-leaning
independents by overwhelming margins say Clinton would do a better job as
president than Obama in handling terrorism, the Iraq war and relations with
unfriendly nations.
If the nomination narrows down to two, Clinton was
preferred over Obama by 59 percent to 36 percent.
Also in the poll, President George W. Bush's approval
rating ticked up to 34 percent, better than his low of 29 percent in July. The
approval rating for congressional Republicans was 29 percent and 37 percent for
congressional Democrats -- both new lows in the eight years since the question
was first asked.
The survey of 1,012 adults has an error margin of +/-
3 points for the full sample, and 5 points for the Republican and Democratic
subsamples.
WASHINGTON,
July 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton is leading by a wide margin her
fellow Democratic rivals seeking the party's presidential nomination, a new poll
published Monday showed.
Fifty-four Democrats said Clinton, who is from New
York, has the best chance of winning the general election in November 2008, more
than twice the percentage saying Senator Barack Obama of Illinois (22 percent),
according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll. Full story
WASHINGTON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- With more than a year to
go before the 2008 elections, U.S. Democratic candidates have raised 100 million
U.S. dollars more in campaign contributions than Republicans, putting them on
track to win the money race for the White House and Congress, The Wall Street
Journal reported Monday.
So far in the 2008 campaign, Democratic candidates for the
White House and Congress, along with the Democratic National Committee and other
party committees, have raised a total of 388.8million dollars, compared with
287.3 million dollars for Republicans, the newspaper said, citing reports filed
with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).Full story
BEJING, June 20 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. Democratic
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday unveiled her new 2008 presidential
campaign song: "You and I" by Canadian singer Celine Dion.
Her official website revealed the song via a new
video spoofing the recent series finale of HBO mob drama "The Sopranos." Full story
U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton speaks at a
"Club 44" campaign event for Clinton in Washington June 6, 2007.
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