Poll: Majority of Democrats want Clinton-Obama battle to continue

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: May 6, 2008
Poll: Majority of Democrats want Clinton-Obama battle to continue

(CNN) – Despite concern among Democratic Party leaders that the drawn-out nomination battle between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama may be damaging their party, a majority of Democrats want the race for the nomination to continue, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll released Tuesday.

Sixty percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters surveyed said the nomination fight should continue while 23 percent said Clinton should drop out, 15 percent favored Obama dropping out and 2 percent had no opinion.

Among Obama supporters, opinion was evenly split – 49 percent to 49 percent — between preferring to have the campaign continue and preferring that Clinton drop out. Sixty-nine percent of Clinton supporters, by contrast, preferred that the nomination battle continue and 28 percent said they would like to see Obama concede the nomination to Clinton.

Democrats and Democratic leaners surveyed also were split in their views of when the Democratic Party’s undecided superdelegates should weigh in and put an end to the race for their party’s nomination. Forty-five percent preferred that undecided superdelegates wait until all of the primaries and caucuses are completed in June while 24 percent said they wanted uncommitted superdelegates to resolve the nomination race after Tuesday’s primaries in Indiana and North Carolina. Slightly more than a quarter – 26 percent – said the superdelegates should wait until the convention in August to pick the Democratic nominee.

The preference for when undecided superdelegates should weigh in appears to be driven by a preference for Obama or Clinton. Supporters of Obama were twice as likely as Clinton supporters to prefer that undecided superdelegates make up their mind this week; supporters of Clinton were twice as likely as Obama’s backers to believe that superdelegates be given until the convention to pick one of the two rivals. Slightly less than half of supporters of both candidates said supderdelegates should make their decision after all primaries and caucuses are over....

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/06/poll-majority-of-democrats-want-clinton-obama-battle-to-continue/

[niyad]

1. I don't have any problem with the democratic process going all the way through.

it never ceases to amaze me that other people do.

[DJ13]

2. POL: A majority of Americans once thought Bush a good President

How did that turn out?

[zanne]

3. I'm not buying it. nt

[JKaiser]

4. If hillary doesn't win the nom.. we have lost all hope of winning the GE

[skipos]

5. Is that snark

Or do you not pay attention to the head to head polls?

[JKaiser]

8. The republicans have started attacking yet in full force

[skipos]

9. Huh?

Hillary and Bill and McCain and the media have been pounding on Obama for weeks now. And still nothing indicates Hillary and Bill would do better against McCain in November.

[LSparkle]

6. Only the ones who enjoy the "horse race" aspects of it ...

Me, I have primary fatigue ... Let it all be over SOON!

[JBoy]

7. I have a hard time believing half of Obama supporters want this to go on.

On a LOL note, 28 percent of Clinton supporters want Obama to concede to Clinton!