Political Wire: "A new SurveyUSA poll in North Carolina shows Sen. Hillary Clinton dramatically closing the gap with Sen. Barack Obama in the final days before the primary. Obama, who has led in the survey by roughly 10 points for most of the last two months, now leads by just 5 points, 49% to 44%."
Political Wire: "A new Howey-Guage Poll in Indiana shows Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton locked in a virtual dead heat before next week's primary. Hoosiers favor Obama over Clinton by the slim margin of 47% to 45%."
Political Wire: "A new Public Policy Polling survey in Indiana shows Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Barack Obama, 50% to 42%."
Political Wire: "A new Rasmussen Reports survey in North Carolina finds Sen. Barack Obama crushing Sen. Hillary Clinton, 51% to 37%."
Pew Research Center: "Trends in the opinions of America's youngest voters are often a barometer of shifting political winds. And that appears to be the case in 2008. The current generation of young voters, who came of age during the George W. Bush years, is leading the way in giving the Democrats a wide advantage in party identification, just as the previous generation of young people who grew up in the Reagan years -- Generation X -- fueled the Republican surge of the mid-1990's. In surveys conducted between October 2007 and March 2008, 58% of voters under age 30 identified or leaned toward the Democratic Party, compared with 33% who identified or leaned toward the GOP. The Democratic Party's current lead in party identification among young voters has more than doubled since the 2004 campaign, from 11 points to 25 points."
Digby: "I've written a lot lately (to some derision from readers) about the fact that I see seismic forces at work in the coming election which I believe are due to conservative movement fatigue and the failure of the Bush administration combined with a perfect storm of issues favoring Democratic solutions. It's hard for me to see how the Democrats lose it, although I don't think they should take anything for granted.
"But as D-Day has been writing, there's something else going on too, and that is a rather dramatic shift to the Democratic party among the electorate. Pew has released a study today which shows some demographic shifts that bode very well for the Democratic party."
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