Obama catches Clinton, McCain on top in N.H.(McClatchy/MSNBC poll)

Source: McClatchy


MERRIMACK, N.H. — Riding an Iowa crest, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has caught New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race for the New Hampshire primary, while Arizona Sen. John McCain maintains a solid lead in the Republican contest, according to a new McClatchy-MSNBC poll.

Obama now leads Clinton by a margin of 33-31 percent, thanks to an apparent surge of support the night after he won the Iowa caucuses. Given the poll's margin of error, the numbers amount to a statistical tie. But that still marks a gain for Obama, who has trailed Clinton in New Hampshire for months.

On the Republican side, McCain led the field by 32-24 percent over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. There, it was McCain who got a bounce, not Iowa winner Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas who still trails in third place and appeared to get no immediate traction from Iowa.

The new poll is hardly a prediction. If anything, it revealed an electorate in New Hampshire still very much up for grabs.

Its three nights of interviews straddled the Iowa results - before, during and after - and could have recorded merely a blip for Obama or the start of a wave. It also came before potentially pivotal debates in New Hampshire Saturday night and Sunday that could swing the Tuesday vote in any direction.



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that young voters without landlines showed up for Obama. Will this happen in NH too?

New Hampshire has a ton of independents too. The demographics are very much in Obama's favor.

to consider when viewing polls. I wonder if only older voters, the ones that rely exclusively on land lines, are the ones being polled today. How does this skew the results?

and they have the legal right to call them. Problem is it is expensive, much more so, to call cell phones and to include into the sample.

Huckabee won big in Iowa and let's say McInsane wins big in NH, what is it it for Romney? We all know he will NOT win SC. (OK, so he has Wyoming.) I think if Romney looses NH he's done for. But then what? McInsane or Fuckabee? I think McCain would end up being the nominee and then we will certainly win the POTUS 08.