NYT/CBS: Obama + 16% over Hillary Nationally, Beats McCain Handily.

[Capn Sunshine]

The new CBS/New York Times poll gives Barack Obama a huge 16-point national lead over Hillary Clinton, providing some corroboration to the USA Today/Gallup poll from earlier today that had him ahead by 12 point. Here are the numbers, compared to the last poll from early February:

Obama 54% (+13)
Clinton 38% (-3)
And in the general election match-ups, Obama is also the stronger of the two Democrats against John McCain:

Obama (D) 50%, McCain (R) 38%
Clinton (D) 46%, McCain (R) 46%

This is what I've maintained since the beginning: Hillary is a weak and vulnerable candidate for the general, perhaps the ONLY candidate who could lose this for us.

[Capn Sunshine]

1. where are the 44's?

:shrug: ?

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. i knew that Obama would be stronger against McCain....

I realize that once he is the nominee, the race will tighten, and if he makes the right VP choice, that should be worth a few points as well.

GOBAMA!

[Capn Sunshine]

3. The more people know Obama, the more they like him

This sizeable lead will increase as Obama's national campaign rolls out, because it's about hope for the future VS the past and all it's Bush administration baggage.

We don't have those clowns that ran Kerry's campaign dictating "strategy" to us

[nolabels]

8. The thing that seems strange but good is that the candidate seems to.........

be making the the choices. He also really doesn't seem autocratic. We know that we could have disappointments about certain things but there seems to be a lot of upside

[workinclasszero]

4. Obama is the next President of the Untied States!

What does Mccain have? A 100 year war in Iraq, a war with Iran("bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran").

Doesn't deviate from the boy-king a bit, It will be Bush part 3 with that jerk.

He will use the same racist, anti-hope, "tough shit we cant change the world" garbage as Hillary, to the same effect!

Damn it Obama supporters get even more fired up than usual! Happy days are here again!:toast:

Get used to sayin "President Obama"!!!:patriot::applause:

[GodlessBiker]

7. It will be Obama vs. McBush.

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. not to mention that McCain has a damned lobbyist falling out of

every orifice. McCain is possibly the biggest hypocrite in modern day politics, and I hope Obama can draw strong contrasts to the McCain of 2000, to the McCain running today. It's as if McCain doesn't have a single principle left. Talk about a real "flip-flopper"...

:edited for clarity

[Anarcho-Socialist]

5. Interesting poll

Rasmussen's numbers put McCain ahead in match-ups against Clinton and Obama, but their polls seem to have a reputation for overly-favouring Republicans.

An Obama 12-point lead over McCain is most good news indeed.

[Thepricebreaker]

6. Lets not get lazy...

Remember people see Obama daily on the news and 99% of the news is good.
I rarely see anyone talking about McCain and if they do is for 20 seconds..


Just wait until its one on one .. those polls will tighten..

Take nothing for granted.