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I didn't have to dig for 7 year old news. This here is today's:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/30/145704.shtml?s=al&promo_code=2CB7-1

Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007 2:55 p.m. EST
Hillary, Giuliani Lead in Ohio Poll

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a strong lead over other Democratic presidential contenders in a new poll of voters in Ohio, the closely divided swing state that tipped the 2004 election for President Bush.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani, who appeared in TV ads and at fundraisers during last year’s gubernatorial race, is the favorite among the state’s Republican voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday. He is favored by 30 percent of voters surveyed compared to 22 percent for Sen. John McCain, 11 percent for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and 4 percent for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Among Ohio Democrats, 38 percent pick Clinton, 13 percent pick Sen. Barack Obama, 11 percent pick former vice presidential candidate John Edwards, and 6 percent would vote for former Vice President Al Gore. Ohio’s own Rep. Dennis Kucinich gets just 2 percent of the vote, or less than the survey’s margin of error.

"Those who say Sen. Hillary Clinton can’t win the White House because she can’t win a key swing state like Ohio might rethink their assumption,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

The institute polled 1,305 registered Ohio voters by phone from last Tuesday to Sunday. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. When results are broken down by party, the margin of error rises to plus or minus 4 percentage points for Democrats, and plus or minus 5 percentage points for Republicans.

Though she holds a strong early lead within her own party, Clinton also faces the strongest bloc of voters among the early contenders — 38 percent — who dislike her, perhaps explaining why she did not beat the poll’s margin of error in any of the head-to-head match-ups tested.

The survey found hypothetical contests between Clinton and Guiliani, Clinton and McCain, Obama and McCain, and Edwards and McCain all within the margin of error.

"Given their stronger overall image, Mayor Guiliani and Sen. McCain would seem to have the potential to improve their standing,” Brown said. "That might be much more difficult for Sen. Clinton because of the larger number of voters who don’t like her.”

The poll also found that 60 percent of Ohio voters oppose Bush’s plan to send 22,000 additional troops into Iraq. Fifty-six percent say going to war in Iraq was wrong, and 65 percent dislike Bush’s handling of the situation.