NEW YORK - More New York voters would support a Republican ticket of John McCain and Condoleezza Rice than a Democratic ticket of Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton as the vice presidential candidate, a survey said on Wednesday.
The match-up of McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, and Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State, earned the support of 49 percent of registered New York voters surveyed in a WNBC/Marist Poll.
The hypothetical Democratic ticket pairing the Illinois senator with the New York senator earned 44 percent, it said.
Switched around, a matchup with Clinton in the presidential slot and Obama as vice president earned 46 percent against the McCain-Rice ticket with 49 percent, the poll showed.
Head to head, Clinton led with 48 percent over McCain with 46 percent, while McCain led Obama 48 percent to 46 percent among New Yoprk voters, the survey showed.
The survey sampled 576 New York state registered voters on April 3 and April 4, by telephone. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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- Photo credits: Reuters/Dave Kaup (McCain in Kansas City), Jonathan Ernst (Rice on Capitol Hill), Jonathan Ernst (Obama on Capitol Hill), Jim Bourg (Clinton on Capitol Hill).
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I am serious. I am not asking for hand holding but I wont tollerate spin. This is 100% garbage and Reuters, a name I used to respect should be embarrassed by it. How many readers agree that the media have been doing a horrible job these last 8 years? How many agree that this was a bad article meant only to mislead?
- Posted by Kenzo NakamuraFull details of the poll are here: http://www.maristpoll.marist.edu/nyspoll s/GV080409.htm
- Posted by Richard Baum