New Poll: 74% of Dems feel unified, only 14% disagree

[darius15]

Three out of four Democrats (74%) say the party’s ongoing national convention has unified them as they roll out now in full force to put their nominee, Barack Obama, in the White House. Just 14% think the convention has not unified them.

Fifty-two percent (52%) of voters overall agree that the convention has unified Democrats, while only 30% disagree, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Fifty-nine percent (59%) also believe that Hillary Clinton’s speech Tuesday night endorsing Obama helps the candidate’s chances of being elected president. More importantly, after weeks of media reports about division in the party between the Clinton and Obama forces, 84% of Democrats say Clinton’s speech helps Obama.

Less than half (45%) of all voters, however, believe Clinton really wants Obama to become president, and 36% think she does not. Again, Democrats have a lot more confidence in the former first lady: 68% say she wants Obama to win, while only 17% say she doesn’t.

But the speech clearly impressed voters with the sincerity of her support for the first African-American nominee of a major political party since the percentage of those who believe she wants him to win has increased noticeably. In a survey taken the night before Clinton’s speech, 56% of Democrats and just 37% of voters overall believed Clinton wanted Obama to win.

Perhaps most importantly, 64% of Democratic women now believe Clinton wants Obama to be elected president, versus 19% who do not think that is the case. Prior to the speech, only 47% of Democratic women thought Clinton wanted Obama to win.

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/74_of_democrats_say_convention_has_unified_them

Thanks Hill!

[TwilightGardener]

1. That's progress. It only gets better from here.

[mystieus]

2. Awesome!

[ThatsMyBarack]

3. So much for PUMAs.

Their nasty little plan doesn't seem to be working! :woohoo:

[npincus]

4. Yes we DID!

[RichGirl]

5. Any former Clinton supporter...

...who is still planning on voting for McCain can just go off and join the mind-numbing world of Fox News. We don't need them.

[bluestateguy]

6. We're getting there

The convention is not going to heal all wounds, but the party will come out more unified than it was before, and more wounds will heal in the next two months.

[jazzjunkysue]

7. For democrats, that's a no-hitter shutout. We never run numbers like that.

It seems these people are getting all the right advice and are hitting all the high notes.