According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Friday, the number of Clinton supporters who plan to defect to Republican Sen. John McCain's camp is down from one month ago, but -- in what could be an ominous sign for Obama as he seeks to unify the party -- the number of them who say they plan to vote for Obama is also down, and a growing number say they may not vote at all.
In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey completed in early June before the New York senator ended her White House bid, 60 percent of Clinton backers polled said they planned on voting for Obama. In the latest poll, that number has dropped to 54 percent.
You'll note, that the first sentence says that the number of Clinton supporters who plan to defect is down, so that's good, right? But the second sentence contradicts the first and it doesn't really make sense, and where are the numbers?
What they don't say is how many Hillary supporters are left. Who are they polling, the PUMAs? I suspect there aren't many, just those diehards who turned democrat to vote for the first woman president.
Then the poll goes on to say that 43% of democrats still want Hillary as president and goes on to question whether Obama can win without her as vice president. So the CNN really polled two groups? Registered democrats and a Hillary supporter pool.
For one, they don't need to be polling Hillary supporters anymore. That race is over. The most telling polls are individual state polls.
The poll is just BS.
The poll is just BS.
