WA PrimD: Survey USA: Obama 5% ahead of Clinton

[Josh/Devilman88]

New Poll: Washington President by Survey USA on 2008-02-08

Summary:

Obama:	50%
Clinton:	45%
Other:	-1%
Undecided:	6%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

[Alcon]

Damn, that's one hell of a tightening.

Although:

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This was also taken during the robo-calls.

[Sbane]

look at the crosstabs obama is leading by near 30 points in the caucus. really becomes close in the primary though.

[Gabu]

The fact that Washington has effectively fooled its voters into thinking that the primary is what matters could be (in a sad, cynical way) crucial to Obama's victory there.

[Flying Dog]

The fact that Washington has effectively fooled its voters into thinking that the primary is what matters could be (in a sad, cynical way) crucial to Obama's victory there.

LOL @ walter is going to love this. I bet he goes into another rant about the evils of caucuses

[True Democrat]

Can someone explain to me how Washington is fooling its voters?

Is it a caucus?

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The fact that Washington has effectively fooled its voters into thinking that the primary is what matters could be (in a sad, cynical way) crucial to Obama's victory there.

LOL @ walter is going to love this. I bet he goes into another rant about the evils of caucuses

Caucuses tend to have those voters who care more about the election. If the November 2, 2004 election was a caucus, John Kerry would have defeated George Bush.

[Flying Dog]

Can someone explain to me how Washington is fooling its voters?

Is it a caucus?

The caucus is tomorrow. It's the only one that matters delegate-wise. The Primary is on the 19th, it is meaningless.

[Alcon]

Can someone explain to me how Washington is fooling its voters?

Is it a caucus?

There's a caucus and then a meaningless Democratic primary.

Oh, and my favorite part.

Yet again, Obama does better among primary voters AND caucus voters than among likely voters overall.

SurveyUSA really needs to change their methodology. 

[Gabu]

Can someone explain to me how Washington is fooling its voters?

Is it a caucus?

There's a caucus this Saturday.  That completely determines who gets Washington's Democratic delegates.  Then later, on the 19th (I believe), there's a primary.  That primary determines absolutely nothing and is effectively just a straw poll.

A recent poll, however, showed that something like 20% of eligible Washingtonians intended to attend the caucus, while meanwhile, around 88% of them intended to vote in the primary.

[John Dibble]

Can someone explain to me how Washington is fooling its voters?

Is it a caucus?

There's a caucus this Saturday.  That completely determines who gets Washington's Democratic delegates.  Then later, on the 19th (I believe), there's a primary.  That primary determines absolutely nothing and is effectively just a straw poll.

A recent poll, however, showed that something like 20% of eligible Washingtonians intended to attend the caucus, while meanwhile, around 88% of them intended to vote in the primary.

LOL, WTF!? Who thought up this system?

[Flying Dog]

This makes me wonder what the results would have been in those ST states in the west if they had held primaries.

[Gabu]

Can someone explain to me how Washington is fooling its voters?

Is it a caucus?

There's a caucus this Saturday.  That completely determines who gets Washington's Democratic delegates.  Then later, on the 19th (I believe), there's a primary.  That primary determines absolutely nothing and is effectively just a straw poll.

A recent poll, however, showed that something like 20% of eligible Washingtonians intended to attend the caucus, while meanwhile, around 88% of them intended to vote in the primary.

LOL, WTF!? Who thought up this system?

I really don't know, but I hope he had an empty life and died alone.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That system is absolutely retarded, but it benefits Obama, so I support it. Plus it'll be great to see Walter's anti-caucus rant. In fact if I lived in Washington, I'd vote for Hillary in the primary, just because it'd be such a great "f**k you" for her to get so much support in the primary and have it mean jack sh!t.

[Eraserhead]

This makes me wonder what the results would have been in those ST states in the west if they had held primaries.

They would have probably been a lot closer but Obama still would have won them (see Utah...which actually had a primary).

[Eraserhead]

That system is absolutely retarded, but it benefits Obama, so I support it. Plus it'll be great to see Walter's anti-caucus rant. In fact if I lived in Washington, I'd vote for Hillary in the primary, just because it'd be such a great "f**k you" for her to get so much support in the primary and have it mean jack sh!t.

lol

[Flying Dog]

Then, thank God for Caucuses.

[© tweed]

this ain't cool, but there's no real way Obama can/will lose, so we should be ok.

[Verily]

Well, they came pretty close for the caucus numbers.