Pew: Obama Losing White Working Class Dems To Hillary In Landslide
By Eric Kleefeld - May 1, 2008, 4:43PM
Barack Obama is suffering a serious erosion in his support among white working class Dem primary voters, the new Pew Research poll finds.
A month ago, Hillary held a 50%-40% advantage among white Democratic voters with a high school degree or less. Today, after the Pennsylvania result and the latest flare-up by Jeremiah Wright, it's a 65%-25% win for Hillary among this same group.
Among white Dems making less than $50,000 per year, Hillary leads 58%-34%, up from a 47%-45% lead a month ago.
Pew still has Obama ahead in a statistical dead heat with a 47%-45% lead, but that's down from his 49%-39% lead last month. (Sample size: 651 Democratic voters and Dem-leaners. Margin of error: ±4.5%)
On the other hand, this poll has another piece of information that would show Obama to be at least as strong a general-election candidate as Hillary: He wins 52% of independents against John McCain, while she wins only 44%. The actual top-lines are very similar:
Clinton (D) 49%, McCain (R) 45%
Obama (D) 50%, McCain (R) 44%
Sample size: 1,323 registered voters. Margin of error: ±3%
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