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California Democratic Primary
Polling Data
| Poll | Date | Sample | Obama | Clinton | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final Results | -- | -- | 42.3 | 51.9 | Clinton +9.6 |
| RCP Average | 02/01 - 02/04 | -- | 44.0 | 42.8 | Obama +1.2 |
| SurveyUSA | 02/03 - 02/04 | 872 LV | 42 | 52 | Clinton +10.0 |
| Reuters/CSpan/Zogby | 02/03 - 02/04 | 895 LV | 49 | 36 | Obama +13.0 |
| Suffolk | 02/01 - 02/03 | 700 LV | 40 | 39 | Obama +1.0 |
| Rasmussen | 02/02 - 02/02 | 798 LV | 45 | 44 | Obama +1.0 |
Recent Commentary & News Stories
- Searching for the Next Vice President - Marc Ambinder, National Journal
- Facts Better for GOP in '08 than '06 - Michael Barone, US News & WR
- The Flip-Flop Brothers: Who Will Suffer? - John Dickerson, Slate
- Obama's Class A Flip-Flop Won't Hurt Him - Jonathan Freedland, Guardian
- How to Hit Obama - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
See All California Democratic Primary Commentary & News Stories
Polling Data
| Poll | Date | Sample | Obama | Clinton | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final Results | -- | -- | 42.3 | 51.9 | Clinton +9.6 |
| RCP Average | 02/01 - 02/04 | -- | 44.0 | 42.8 | Obama +1.2 |
| SurveyUSA | 02/03 - 02/04 | 872 LV | 42 | 52 | Clinton +10.0 |
| Reuters/CSpan/Zogby | 02/03 - 02/04 | 895 LV | 49 | 36 | Obama +13.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 02/02 - 02/03 | 853 LV | 41 | 53 | Clinton +12.0 |
| Reuters/CSpan/Zogby | 02/01 - 02/03 | 967 LV | 46 | 40 | Obama +6.0 |
| Suffolk | 02/01 - 02/03 | 700 LV | 40 | 39 | Obama +1.0 |
| Rasmussen | 02/02 - 02/02 | 798 LV | 45 | 44 | Obama +1.0 |
| Reuters/CSpan/Zogby | 01/31 - 02/02 | 1141 LV | 45 | 41 | Obama +4.0 |
| Mason-Dixon | 01/30 - 02/01 | 400 LV | 36 | 45 | Clinton +9.0 |
| Field | 01/25 - 02/01 | 511 LV | 34 | 36 | Clinton +2.0 |
| Rasmussen | 01/29 - 01/29 | 807 LV | 40 | 43 | Clinton +3.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 01/27 - 01/27 | 888 LV | 38 | 49 | Clinton +11.0 |
| Politico/CNN/LAT | 01/23 - 01/27 | 690 LV | 32 | 49 | Clinton +17.0 |
| USA Today/Gallup | 01/23 - 01/26 | 779 HT | 35 | 47 | Clinton +12.0 |
| Field | 01/14 - 01/20 | 377 LV | 27 | 39 | Clinton +12.0 |
| PPIC | 01/13 - 01/20 | 543 LV | 28 | 43 | Clinton +15.0 |
| Rasmussen | 01/14 - 01/14 | 897 LV | 33 | 38 | Clinton +5.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 01/11 - 01/13 | 810 LV | 35 | 50 | Clinton +15.0 |
| Politico/CNN/LAT | 01/11 - 01/13 | 384 LV | 31 | 47 | Clinton +16.0 |
| Field | 12/10 - 12/17 | 457 LV | 22 | 36 | Clinton +14.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 12/14 - 12/16 | 741 LV | 30 | 49 | Clinton +19.0 |
| PPIC | 11/27 - 12/04 | 444 LV | 20 | 44 | Clinton +24.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 11/30 - 12/03 | 735 LV | 24 | 50 | Clinton +26.0 |
| Field | 10/11 - 10/21 | 434 LV | 20 | 45 | Clinton +25.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 10/12 - 10/14 | 782 LV | 20 | 57 | Clinton +37.0 |
| San Jose State | 10/01 - 10/08 | RV | 20 | 42 | Clinton +22.0 |
| PPIC | 09/04 - 09/11 | 455 LV | 23 | 41 | Clinton +18.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 09/07 - 09/09 | 765 LV | 27 | 51 | Clinton +24.0 |
| Field | 08/03 - 08/12 | 418 LV | 19 | 49 | Clinton +30.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 08/02 - 08/05 | 764 LV | 27 | 51 | Clinton +24.0 |
| American Res. Group | 07/30 - 08/02 | 600 LV | 22 | 35 | Clinton +13.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 06/29 - 07/01 | 763 LV | 24 | 49 | Clinton +25.0 |
| SPRI | 06/18 - 06/22 | 645 LV | 15 | 37 | Clinton +22.0 |
| Datamar* | 06/06 - 06/11 | 507 LV | 24 | 37 | Clinton +13.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 06/01 - 06/03 | 720 LV | 28 | 46 | Clinton +18.0 |
| American Res. Group | 05/04 - 05/08 | 600 LV | 28 | 37 | Clinton +9.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 05/04 - 05/06 | 667 RV | 27 | 48 | Clinton +21.0 |
| Mellman Group (D) | 04/09 - 04/12 | 400 LV | 19 | 38 | Clinton +19.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 03/30 - 04/01 | 817 LV | 26 | 43 | Clinton +17.0 |
| PPIC | 03/13 - 03/20 | 498 LV | 24 | 35 | Clinton +11.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 03/03 - 03/05 | 782 LV | 31 | 44 | Clinton +13.0 |
| Datamar | 02/09 - 02/13 | 865 LV | 24 | 34 | Clinton +10.0 |
| American Res. Group | 01/11 - 01/17 | 600 LV | 33 | 36 | Clinton +3.0 |
All Commentary & News Stories
- Searching for the Next Vice President - Marc Ambinder, National Journal
- Facts Better for GOP in '08 than '06 - Michael Barone, US News & WR
- The Flip-Flop Brothers: Who Will Suffer? - John Dickerson, Slate
- Obama's Class A Flip-Flop Won't Hurt Him - Jonathan Freedland, Guardian
- How to Hit Obama - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
- McCain Closes the Cash Gap - Jeanne Cummings, The Politico
- Can McCain Save the GOP Brand? - Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
- A Family-Friendly Idea for McCain - Ramesh Ponnuru, Weekly Standard
- Obama Should Keep Gates at Defense - Joe Klein, Time
- VP Choice Isn't Always About Balance - David Shribman, Pitt Post-Gazette
- Why Did Obama Rattle the Jerusalem Issue? - Frida Ghitis, Miami Herald
- Where are Michelle's Feminist Defenders? - Mary Curtis, Washington Post
- Obama's Ever-Changing "Change" - New York Post
- McCain and Bush, Oil Opportunists - Los Angeles Times
- Obama-Gore? - Washington Times
- Obama's Right About Families and Education - James Klurfeld, Newsday
- The Obama-McCain Authenticity Contest - Liz Sidoti, Associated Press
- Obama: A False Moderate? - Michael Gerson, Washington Post
- Countering Race with Class - David Sirota, San Francisco Chronicle
- Obama's Balancing Act on Free Trade - Brian Montopoli, CBS News
- U.S. Shouldn't Alienate Canada on NAFTA - Sen. John McCain, Detroit FP
- U.S. Must Increase Energy Research Funding - Mort Kondracke, Roll Call
- McCain Struggles to Break Free of Bush - M. Reston & B. Drogin, LA Times
- Obama Should Keep Gates at Defense - Joe Klein, Time
- Obama's Flip-Flop Won't Hurt Bid - Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian
- The Two Obamas - David Brooks, New York Times
- After Shift, Obama Poised For Huge Cash Edge - Rick Klein, ABC News
- McCain's Oil Epiphany - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
- Drilling: A Cynical Political Calculation - Paul Krugman, New York Times
- The Problem with Obama's New Politics - Mona Charen, National Review
- Why 9/11 Won't Defeat Obama - Jonathan Chait, The New Republic
- Social Security is Not a Welfare Program - Larry Lindsey, Wall St. Journal
- The Party of Lincoln Was Left Behind on Civil Rights - John Avlon, RCP
- McCain is No Maverick - Eric Alterman & George Zornick, The Nation
- Obama Should Swap Chicago for Phoenix - Tristram Hunt, Times of London
- All Eyes on New Hampshire -- Again - E. J. Dionne, Seattle Times
- Will There Be Coattails in November? - Reid Wilson, RealClearPolitics
- Public Funding on the Ropes - New York Times
- Obama Flips, Blames It on McCain - Wall Street Journal
- Yes, Drill - but Research, Too - Dallas Morning News
- McCain Scores w/Drilling Proposal - Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, Fox News
- Dem Governors Unite Behind Obama - Napolitano & O'Malley, The Politico
- Does Obama Know What He's Talking About? - Scott Johnson, Power Line
- A Feminist Would Be Insane to Vote for McCain - Katha Pollitt, The Nation
- Obama's Best Veep Choice is Gone - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
- McCain's Terror Errors - Rosa Brooks, Los Angeles Times
- Questions from an Obamacon - Larry Hunter, The New Republic
- Obama's Chivalry Gap - Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
- Obama to Break Pledge, Opt Out of Public Financing - Jake Tapper, ABC News
- Democrats, Not So Fast - Ross Baker, USA Today
- The Not So Simple Politics of Iraq - Marie Cocco, Indianapolis Star
- McCain Should Give Up on Evangelical Support - Froma Harrop, Prov Journal
- Can Obama Defend America? - Michael Tomasky, The Guardian
- Promises Aren't Plans, Senator Obama - Ralph Peters, New York Post
- It's Not What They've Done, But What They'll Learn - John Ibbitson, G & M
- Obama and McCain Spout Economic Nonsense - Karl Rove, Wall St. Journal
- Oil Lessons - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
- Obama's Promise of Change - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics
- Dismantling the Myth of McCain - David Moberg, In These Times
- The '08 Battles for the U.S. Senate - Larry Sabato, UVA Center for Politics
- What Obama Meant By 'Undivided' Jerusalem - Joel Mowbray, RCP
- The Obama Two-Step - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
- Obama, The Post-Post 9/11 Candidate - Philip Klein, American Spectator
- Using 9/11 For Partisan Gain - Michael Scherer, Time
- Obama: NAFTA Not So Bad After All - Nina Easton, Fortune
- McCain and Obama's Gas Fight - Amy Walter, National Journal
- Obama and 9/11 - Max Boot, Commentary Magazine
- McCain's Message Problem - John Dickerson, Slate
- Michelle Obama's Subtle Makeover - M. Powell & J. Kantor, New York Times
- Calling All Fathers - Kathleen Parker, RealClearPolitics
- McCain Attacks Gitmo Ruling at His Peril - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
- Sweeping and Wrong Conclusions - Peter Wehner, National Review Online
- Tim Pawlenty's Proletarian Chic - Noam Scheiber, The New Republic
- Time For Obama to Slaughter Some Sacred Cows - Blake Dvorak, RCP
- A McCain-Lieberman Ticket? - Walter Shapiro, Salon
- The Problem with Obama's Father's Day Speech - Bruce Walker, Am. Thinker
- Iraq's Foreign Minister Has a Chat with Obama - Washington Post
- The Energy Tide is Turning - Investor's Business Daily
- Bush Will Seek to Drop a Drilling Ban - Sheryl Stolberg, New York Times
- Envisioning McCain's Supreme Court - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
- Why Hasn't Obama Pulled Further Ahead? - Jake Tapper, ABC News
- Can Georgia Be Obama's Ohio? - Jay Newton-Small, Time
- George Will's Weak Case Against McCain - Mark Levin, NRO
- When Obama is Off the Teleprompter - John Podhoretz, Contentions
- Full Metal McCain - Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
- Where the Electorate Stands - Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic
- Why McCain Wouldn't Be Bush III - Andrew Romano, Newsweek
- It's Obama's Race to Lose - Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
- McCain's Desperate Debate Gambit - Paul Waldman, American Prospect
- George Will is Wrong About Boumediene - Ed Whelan, NRO
- Obama as a Great Hope, No Matter His Color - Les Payne, Newsday
- Obama and the Cheney Option - Steve Kornacki, New York Observer
- Has Affirmative Action Run Its Course? - Jonathan Kaufman, WSJ
- Obama Raises Hopes for Fatherhood - E. J. Dionne, Houston Chronicle
- McCain's Posturing on Guantanamo - George Will, Washington Post
- The Unraveling of Joe Lieberman - Jonathan Chait, The New Republic
- Democratic Unity Still Out of Reach - Matthew Dallek, The Politico
- Independent Voters To Be Key in Nov. - Balz & Cohen, Washington Post
- What Obama Can Learn from Gates - Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic
- McCain Aims to Avoid the Dole-Drums - Holly Bailey, Newsweek