Ohio is an uphill struggle for Obama
Barak Obama still trails Hillary Clinton by 8 points in the latest poll for the Ohio primary. As our tracking poll shows, it’s a long way from the 21 point deficit he faced at the end of January, but with just a week to go it’s still going to be an uphill struggle to close the gap.
The Ohio primary has become yet another key contest, after the Clinton camp played down expectations of victory in the other so-called “firewall” state, Texas, as a poll indicated that Obama’s support was 57% to Clinton’s 43%. Should Obama win Texas and Ohio it must surely be the final humiliation Clinton’s campaign could endure.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:41 am
[...] He did well to make up so much ground in Texas, but Ohio was always going to be an uphill struggle, as we pointed out last week. But the results of the two contests hide some interesting, and potentially disturbing [...]