Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #13344
 
Eve of Maryland Democratic Primary, Obama With Significant Advantage Over Clinton: 24 hours till votes are counted in the Maryland Democratic Primary, Barack Obama is well positioned to capture a majority of the convention delegates, according to a SurveyUSA tracking poll conducted exclusively for WJLA-TV Washington DC. Today, it's Obama 55%, Clinton 32%. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA tracking poll released 72 hours ago, Obama is up 3, Clinton is down 1. Clinton is gaining ground in the Baltimore suburbs, but losing ground among voters age 50+.
 
Filtering: 1,700 Maryland adults were interviewed 02/09/08 and 02/10/08. Half of interviews were conducted before Obama wins in Louisiana Primary, Nebraska caucus and Washington state caucus were known. Half of interviews were conducted after. Almost all of interviews were conducted before Obama win in Maine was known. All of interviews were conducted after NBC newsman was suspended over comments about Chelsea Clinton and Clinton campaign threatened to withdraw from scheduled NBC debate over those comments. Of the MD adults, 1,528 were registered to vote. Of them, 774 were determined by SurveyUSA to be likely to vote in the 02/12/08 Democratic primary.
 
If the Democratic Primary for President of the United States were today, would you vote for...(names rotated) Hillary Clinton? Barack Obama? Some other Democrat? Will you vote uncommitted? Or, are you undecided?
774 Likely VotersAllGenderAge<50 / 50+RaceIdeologyAttend Religious ServiceAbortionChange Your MindTop Issue For Next PresidentRegion
Margin of Sampling Error: ± 3.6%MaleFemale18-3435-4950-6465+18-4950+WhiteBlackHispanicOtherConservaModerateLiberalRegularlOccasionAlmost NPro-lifePro-choiCould ChMind MadEconomyEnvironmHealth CIraqTerrorisSocial SEducatioImmigratBaltimorBaltimorRest of
Clinton32%24%39%25%27%37%44%26%39%44%15%**39%16%36%31%30%34%34%31%33%18%36%36%**34%25%34%**22%**21%41%29%
Obama55%65%48%62%62%51%42%62%47%39%78%**54%61%53%60%58%55%51%53%56%35%60%52%**56%66%41%**78%**68%44%60%
Other1%2%1%0%1%2%2%1%2%2%0%**0%8%1%0%2%1%1%3%1%2%1%2%**0%1%6%**0%**0%3%1%
Uncommitted6%7%5%8%4%7%7%6%7%9%2%**7%12%6%4%5%7%7%7%6%21%2%6%**3%4%14%**0%**6%8%4%
Undecided5%3%7%4%6%4%6%5%5%6%5%**0%3%4%5%5%3%7%5%4%23%0%4%**7%4%5%**0%**5%4%6%
Total100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%
Composition of Likely Voters100%43%57%20%35%27%17%55%45%53%39%3%5%11%41%31%46%30%24%23%73%19%79%39%5%17%18%5%4%6%4%17%37%46%
 
 
** Too few respondents of this type were interviewed for this data to be meaningful.