Clinton, Penn Spin Day-After Poll

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From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro


In post-Iowa poll spin, the Clinton campaign rolled out Chief Strategist Mark Penn. He dismissed the latest Washington Post/ABC poll showing Obama ahead, saying there’s been “a lot of over-reporting” on it.

“Iowa’s always been a competitive race,” Penn told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski this morning. He finds it “very funny” hearing “we slipped” because “our vote is staying exactly the same. He’s {Obama’s} moving within the margin of error.”

He implicitly questioned the poll’s accuracy, citing that the last one in July also showed Obama ahead. “It’s the only poll to do so,” Penn said.

Obama was ahead of Clinton and Edwards in that poll 27%-26%-26%. Obama was also leading in a late September Newsweek poll 28%-24%-22%.

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