Here Are The Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #13164

Geography Surveyed: New York
Data Collected: 01/09/2008 - 01/10/2008
Release Date: 01/11/2008 9:55 AM ET
Sponsors: Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin , Elmira Star-Gazette , Ithaca Journal , WABC-TV New York, WGRZ-TV Buffalo, WHEC-TV Rochester, WNYT-TV Albany

New York State Democratic Primary: Clinton 27 Points Atop Obama -- In a Democratic Primary in New York state today, 01/11/08, 25 days to the 02/05/08 vote, Hillary Clinton defeats Barack Obama 2:1, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for 7 NY state media outlets. Among all likely Democratic Primary voters, which in NY does not include Independents, it's Clinton 56%, Obama 29%. Clinton leads by 8 points among men, leads by 43 points among women. Clinton leads by 36 points among whites. Obama leads by 9 among blacks. Clinton leads 3:1 among seniors. Clinton leads by 21 in New York City, leads by 32 in the suburbs of NYC, leads by 37 Upstate. 31% of Democrats say they may change their mind before 02/05/08. Among those who say their mind is made up, Clinton is up 33 points.

Filtering: 2,800 New York state adults were interviewed 01/09/08 through 01/10/08. Of them, 2,477 were registered to vote. Of them, 957 were identified by SurveyUSA as likely to vote in a Democratic Primary. The New York Primary is "closed," which means that, unlike Iowa and New Hampshire where Independents could be included, only registered Democrats may vote. In January 2000, Hillary Clinton moved to New York. In November 2000, Clinton was elected United States Senator from New York. To this extent, New York is Clinton's home state. Half of these interviews were conducted before Bill Richardson withdrew from the race, half were conducted after.

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  Asked of 957 likely democratic primary voters
  Credibility Interval for this question = ± 3.2 percentage points.

If the Democratic Primary for President of the United States were today, would you vote for...(names rotated) Hillary Clinton? John Edwards? Barack Obama? Or some other Democrat?

56% Clinton
8% Edwards
29% Obama
8% Other / Undecided

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