Will Ohio Help Decide Indiana & North Carolina’s Primaries?
With days to go before Indiana and North Carolina voters head to the polls, new polling numbers show Democrat Hillary Clinton faring better than Barack Obama in head-to-head matchups against Republican John McCain in crucial swing states Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.
The most recent polling by SurveyUSA and Quinnipiac University gives Clinton a double-digit lead in a hypothetical general election matchup against McCain in Ohio. The same polling casts a McCain-Obama matchup as a virtual tie, with McCain holding a lead within the margin of error.
You can see how Florida and Pennsylvania also appear more likely to break for Clinton by checking out Real Clear Politics. If electability becomes the issue that settles the Democratic dust-up and superdelegates opt for the familiar Clinton brand over the Obama movement, the numbers out of Ohio will likely be cited as the justification for going against the pledged delegate count. Whether that’s even possible may be answered next week when two states known for their love of basketball make their decision between the ‘Cinderella story’ candidate and the 1-seed who refuses to go down.
