POLL: Hillary 40 (-4), Obama 30 (+5), Edwards 14 (0)

[jefferson_dem]

Obama is now within ten points of Hillary, according to this CNN/Opinion Research Poll.

Interviews with 1,002 adult Americans conducted by telephone by Opinion Research Corporation on December 6-9, 2007. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

a. Is the most likeable
Dec. 6-9 August 6-8
Obama 38% 34%
Clinton 29% 31%
Edwards 17% 19%

b. Is most likely to unite the country
Dec. 6-9
Obama 32%
Clinton 30%
Edwards 16%

c. Is least likely to act like a typical politician if elected President
Dec. 6-9
Obama 35%
Clinton 21%
Edwards 11%

d. Has the best chance of beating the Republican nominee in the general election next November
Dec. 6-9 August 6-8
2007 2007
Clinton 53% 55%
Obama 25% 19%

e. Has the right experience to be president?
Dec. 6-9 Sep. 7-9 Aug. 6-8
2007 2007 2007
Clinton 55% 60% 59%
Obama 13% 9% 9%
Edwards 11% 15% 11%

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More tasty internals at ---> http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/12/10/rel12a.pdf

[skipos]

1. And Biden inches up to tie Richardson for 4th

I sure would like to see him bump Hillary out of the top tier, but it looks like he has a long way to go. Alas, his poll numbers are about the same as Edwards' numbers 4 years ago.

[Dawgs]

2. Good. First one that looks like Rasmussen poll.

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