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In a turnaround from some recent polls showing a much closer race, a poll released today by Qunnipiac opens some daylight for Obama as it shows him with a strong 9 point lead nationally. Obama's lead is built on his strong support from young people, Afro-Americans and women as Quinnipiac reports below:

With commanding leads among women and young voters and near unanimous support from black voters, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has a 50 - 41 percent lead over Arizona Sen. John McCain, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll of likely voters released today.

Independent voters split 44 - 44 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. Sen. McCain has a slight 47 - 44 percent edge among men voters and a larger 49 - 42 percent lead among white voters.

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A poll released today by Rasmussen is showing that 58% of respondents believe that Obama's denouncement of Rev Wright on Tuesday was nothing more than a political ploy in order to slow the bleeding that is occuring within the Obama campaign the last couple of weeks.

Many of those polled indicated that Obama had said 'Too Little' in his denunciation of Wright, and that his rejection came 'Too Late.'

Only 30% of those polled believed that Obama has shown genuine rage over Wright's comments, while 52% thought that Obama wasn't at all surprised by Wright's remarks. Of those polled, 56% believe that Obama shares at least some of his former pastor's radical views, including 48% of Democrats and 49% of Independents.

This further confirms what the latest polls showed yesterday, where Clinton shows a surge and Obama is losing favorable ratings just days before the next two primaries in Indiana and North Carolina.

It is undeniable that the Wright controversy has hurt Barack Obama, but Obama seemed to be coming back from it before Wright's mini tour and latest words and although Barack Obama did denounce not just the words this time, but also the man to a point, these numbers are showing that it might just have been "too little too late".

UPDATE: National polling by Gallup is showing that McCain has opened up a 6% point lead over Obama 48% to 42%. McCain leads Clinton by only 1% point in that same poll.

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Hillary Clinton has come from far back to take the lead in the latest Rasmussen poll. Clinton, down over 10 points in this poll not long ago, now enjoys a 1 point lead over Obama, 46-45. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/ 2008/latestpolls/index.html

This is obviously great news for the Clinton camp as the momentum has clearly swung back in her favor with just over a week before PA. And what's even worse for Obama is that the full extent of the "bitter" remarks have not even been polled yet, and could reach their peak just as Pennsylvanians go to vote next week.

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Most of the national non-tracking polls show a tie or a slight lead for Barack Obama over John McCain.  Some of these surveys are quite detailed and are conducted over a period of three to seven days.  

Then there's the Gallup tracking poll which has showed remarkable stability since tracking began with McCain leading Obama by one point and Clinton by two points.  There hasn't been a lot of movement with McCain ahead by one or two most days over Obama.  As has been pointed out by Jerome (and others), both Clinton and Obama have different strengths and weaknesses.

Out in "right" field, there's the Rasmussen tracking poll which shows McCain gaining ground again after a dip last weekend.
McCain leads Obama 48-41 and Clinton 47-42.  Ever since the Rev. Wright story broke, McCain has broken away from a tie race to lead ever since.

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OK, I am not going to talk about Presidential candidates here because I know it will just lead to another useless arguement.  Instead, I want to turn to another issue of great importance that people in the liberal blogosphere are not paying nearly enough attention to.  That is the battle for control of the House.  This new Rasmussen poll shows Democrats clinging to a bare 44%-40% lead in the generic Congressional ballot.  http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_c ontent/politics/mood_of_america/congress ional_ballot/generic_congressional_ballo t

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