Obama Leads in Minnesota and Iowa

Sasha Obama and Joe

Take that republican convention. 

In a CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corp. survey out Wednesday afternoon, 55 percent of Iowa registered voters who were questioned said that Obama, D-Illinois, is their choice for president, with 40 percent backing McCain, R-Arizona. That's more than double the lead Obama had in a University of Iowa poll taken early last month.

"Obama is winning in all regions of the state, even in the western counties, where George W. Bush beat John Kerry by 17 points," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "Obama is winning rural voters in Iowa, not something you see in many other states."

And Minnesota

It appears to be a similar story in Minnesota, where the Republicans are holding their national convention this week.

The poll indicates that Obama has a 12-point lead over McCain, 53 percent to 41 percent.

That's up slightly from a 10-point lead Obama held in a Humphrey Institute survey taken last month.

We only post polls when they're good ones.

Clinton: Supporters Don't Know How to Caucus

from the wall street journal:

The New York senator also spurned the caucus system when she asked how many of her supporters had attended a caucus before. "See, not very many," she said. "Most people have no idea what a caucus is … I've always just voted and I thought that was OK."

well, hillary clinton, if you were organized at the grass roots level, if you were a leader who could mobilize people, then they would know what a caucus was.
who is showing superior leadership here? who is showing that he as the ability to move people, to actually get them to do something?

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Obama Leads McCain by 12

in a general election matchup between obama and mccain, obama leads mccain by 12 points; clinton leads mccain by 6 points.

Arizona Sen. John McCain kicks off his general election campaign trailing both potential Democratic nominees in hypothetical matchups, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama leads McCain, who captured the delegates needed to claim the Republican nomination Tuesday night, by 12 percentage points among all adults in the poll. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) enjoys a six-point lead over the presumptive GOP nominee. Both Democrats are buoyed by moderates and independents in the head-to-heads and benefit from sustained negative public assessments of President Bush and the war in Iraq.

About two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling his job and think the war was not worth fighting, and most hold those positions "strongly." A slim majority also doubts the United States is making progress toward restoring civil order in Iraq, even as McCain and others extol recent successes there.

These views are closely related to voters' choices: McCain does poorly against Clinton and Obama among those who disapprove of the president and those opposing the war.