Polls show Clinton, Obama in dead heat
Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are in a dead heat in the early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, polls showed Monday.
Statewide Mason-Dixon polls for MSNBC and McClatchy Newspapers showed the Clinton-Obama race too close to call in the three states.
The surveys were completed Thursday, before media superstar Oprah Winfrey barnstormed the states with Obama over the weekend, drawing an estimated 66,500 people.
Clinton, the long-time front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, led Obama by 2 percentage points in Iowa and 3 percentage points in New Hampshire and South Carolina. The results in all three states had a margin of error of 5 percentage points. This means that the poll results do not show a clear winner.
Winfrey rallies add to Obama’s recruits
The presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., claims that the three-state, four-stop road show over the weekend with Oprah Winfrey generated 4,250 new campaign volunteers.
Campaign spokesman Bill Burton said the “huge, energetic rallies” that greeted the Obama-Oprah tag team helped enlist recruits in each state.
Denver Post wire services
