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Biden trailing Clinton at home
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Oct 13, 2007 02:41pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Wilmington (DE) News Journal |
| News Date | Saturday, October 13, 2007 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Wilmington News Journal article.
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"A home-field advantage may play well in sports, but it doesn't seem to be helping U.S. Sen. Joe Biden's presidential campaign in Delaware.
Biden is badly lagging Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., among First Staters, according to a poll released Friday. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani enjoys a comfortable lead over his Republican presidential rivals.
Biden spokesman Mark Paustenbach says the campaign's not sweating the Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind Poll that found Clinton leading here with support from 41 percent of Democrats. Biden was second with 19 percent, followed by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at 17 percent and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards at 7 percent.
"That number is based on the perception of electability," Paustenbach said, predicting the results would change by the time Delaware's Feb. 5 primary rolls around.
The poll indicates that electability is something Biden needs to work on, because only 4 percent of voters rated his chances of becoming the Democratic nominee as "excellent," and 50 percent rated his chances as "poor."
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"The Republican side of the poll reflects what's been happening nationally, and shows a wide-open race. Giuliani is preferred by 37 percent of the voters polled, a number that puts him ahead of the nearest competition -- undecided -- which comes in at 21 percent.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the next-closest candidate at 14 percent, is in a statistical dead heat with former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson at 13 percent and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 10 percent among Delaware Republicans." |
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