If Clinton suffered any real damage from the Tuesday night debate (other than giving the eventual Republican candidate a road map), it has not yet shown up in the polling numbers:
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Saturday, November 03, 2007
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Senator Hillary Clinton maintaining steady support in the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. Clinton now earns 43% of the vote, while Barack Obama attracts 21%, John Edwards is preferred by 11%, and Bill Richardson is supported by 5%. No other candidate tops the 3% level among Likely Democratic Primary Voters (see recent daily numbers).
These results are based upon nightly telephone surveys and are reported on a four-day rolling average basis. Approximately three-quarters of the interviews for today’s update were conducted following Tuesday night’s Democratic debate. For the three nights following the debate, the results are Clinton 44%, Obama 22%, and Edwards 12%.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll is typically updated Monday through Friday. This special Saturday update is being released due to interest in the impact of Tuesday night’s debate. The next tracking poll update will be released Monday morning by noon Eastern. The Presidential Tracking Poll will be updated seven days a week beginning Saturday, December 1, 2007.
A separate analysis released yesterday noted that Clinton did not lose ground on the two days following the debate. Partly that’s because the audience was very small and many Americans were not paying attention. Clinton remains the unifying theme of Election 2008.
Clinton is currently viewed favorably by 78% of Democrats, Edwards by 67%, and Obama by 61%.
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