Obama Holds On to His Comfortable Lead According to New Polls

March 31, 2008

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The upswing in Barack Obama’s national poll numbers seems to be alive and well according to the Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted March 28-30 finds Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton in national Democratic preferences for the nomination, 51% to 43%. This is the fourth consecutive Gallup Poll Daily tracking report showing Obama with a statistically significant lead. It marks the first time since late February that either Clinton or Obama has sustained a statistically significant lead in the race for more than two consecutive days.

The current outlook for the general election in November, based on Gallup Poll Daily interviewing from March 26-30, shows a virtual tie between both Democratic hopefuls and the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain. McCain is ahead in both hypothetical ballots, but by only two percentage points against Clinton 47% to 45%, and by just one point against Obama, 46% to 45%:

Gallup is interviewing no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults nationwide each day during 2008. The general election results are based on combined data from March 26-30, 2008. For results based on this sample of 4,394 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling error is ¬±2 percentage points.