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    Pre-Primary Poll Preview

    Posted:
    05/12/08

    If Hillary is imploding, nobody told the good folks in West (By God!) Virginia and Kentucky. She's still showing huge margins of support.

    RealClearPolitics has the roundup:

    Suffolk is out with a new poll in West Virginia (May 10-11) showing Clinton with a 36-point lead:

    Clinton 60
    Obama 24
    Undecided 8

    And Research 2000 has new numbers in Kentucky (May 7-9), where Clinton also enjoys a substantial 27-point lead over Obama:

    Clinton 58
    Obama 31
    Undecided 11

    Even with results like this, we probably won't see another shift in the race back to Hillary. These results are "baked in," they are expected, and in fact anything less than a 20 point margin may be looked on as a Hillary loss. Apart from some handwringing over Obama's lack of appeal to Appalachian voters, the Democrats will remind themselves that most Americans aren't from the hills and hollers, and that will be that.


    And Kentucky and West Virginia will go red in the fall. The Democrats will just have to win without them, if they can.

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