QUINNIPIAC POLL: McCain Beats Obama and Hillary by Equal Margin Among Working Class Whites

[flpoljunkie]

Poll: McCain Beats Obama And Hillary By Equal Margin Among Working Class Whites

By Greg Sargent - May 14, 2008, 11:14AM

There are some key numbers buried in the internals of today's Quinnipiac poll that go some way towards deflating Hillary's claim that she would outperform Obama against McCain among working class whites.

It finds that McCain beats both Hillary and Obama by an identical margin among working class (no college) white voters.

Among these voters, McCain beats Obama 46%-39%.

And McCain beats Hillary 48%-41%.

That's a seven point spread in both cases.

What's more, the poll also finds that both lose to McCain by an equal margin of seven points among whites overall.

Of course, Hillary's argument is also about who would fare better among these voters in the big states in particular, and this is only one poll.

Nonetheless, there's no getting around the fact that the above numbers are difficult to square with a central aspect of her basic argument.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/poll_mccain_beats_obama_and_hi.php

[Occam Bandage]

1. There goes Hillary's "White America" argument.

[cali]

5. HIllary folks here will studiously ignore this information as if were

kryptonite. They tend to do that with any info that doesn't fit into their shrinking perspective.

[MonkeyFunk]

8. this is the third time

I've seen someone put "white america" in quotes. When did Clinton discuss "white America"?

[Occam Bandage]

10. I'm sorry. How sloppy. "Working, hard-working Americans. White Americans."

[MonkeyFunk]

17. it was a sincere question

I thought it might be in reference to something I hadn't seen. Thanks for clarifying.

[ingac70]

2. Supposed "working class" whites....

obviously likes eating the shit handed to them by the GOP.

As I working class person myself, I think these polls are full of nothing but lies.

GOBAMA!

[Bolo Boffin]

3. Muchas gracias.

The poll has both beating John McCain in the long run, but neither will be able to rely on the demographic that Senator Clinton says should convince superdelegates to overrule the will of the Democratic Party voters.

[flpoljunkie]

13. Even the "Big Dog" lost working whites in 1992 and 1996 with only 39% support both elections.

[anonymous171]

4. K&R

:kick:

[Champion Jack]

6. I got polled by QUINNIPIAC just 3 days ago

[Thrill]

7. Again this is more evidence of how true Barack's comments were

Why the hell would anyone working class want McCain? I'll tell you. Because "The Democrats are going to take our guns away."

[tledford]

9. The poll results differ from what I think, so the poll is wrong. Q.E.D.

;)

[BeyondGeography]

11. Nora Ephron was right: White men are notoriously unreliable

Give them a chance to reject a woman and/or a black man and most will take it.

[JCMach1]

12. Poll is worthless... in the GE, it's about which states you win

In several key normally democratic states, the current demographics do not favor Obama.

The %'s from the Qu poll include the south.

[FrenchieCat]

14. The poll is wrong, because the GE election has barely gotten started......

as Obama is being forced by the Unsinkable Hillary Clinton from campaigning in earnest.

Obama will transcend race, just like he did prior to Hillary Clinton making his melanin count her biggest issue.

[JCMach1]

16. In some ways Obama is 'whiter' than Bill Clinton

no one ever seems to talk about that :crazy:

I agree though, nothing about the GE is settled yet.

[eleny]

15. That's why Hillary needs to step aside by early June and allow us to start campaigning against McC