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American Research Group, Inc: South Dakota, Hillary 60, Obama 34
ARG ^ | 6/2/08 | staff

Posted on 06/02/2008 11:57:50 AM PDT by pissant

Presidential Primary Preference:

South Dakota

Likely Democratic Primary Voters -- May 31-June 1

Clinton ---60% Obama ---34% Undecided --6%

About this Survey -

Survey Sponsor: American Research Group, Inc.

The American Research Group has been conducting surveys of voters since 1985.

Sample Size: 600 completed telephone interviews among a random sample of likely Democratic primary voters living in South Dakota (600 Democrats).

Sample Dates: May 31-June 1, 2008

Margin of Error: ± 4 percentage points, 95% of the time, on questions where opinion is evenly split.

Question Wording:

If the 2008 Democratic presidential preference primary were being held today between (names rotated) Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, for whom would you vote - Clinton or Obama?

Would you say that you definitely plan to vote in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, that you might vote in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, or that you will probably not vote in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanresearchgroup.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; 2008polls; hillary; obama; sd2008; whokilleddonaldyoung
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Too many working class whities in SD, apparently.
1 posted on 06/02/2008 11:57:51 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

American Research Group is run by Vin Gupta, a longtime Clinton friend. This poll means absolutely nothing except for telling us what Clintons want us to hear.


2 posted on 06/02/2008 12:00:22 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: pissant

Obama’s on a roll, and it’s all downhill.


3 posted on 06/02/2008 12:01:51 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: Cementjungle

Except they nailed it in WV, I believe.


4 posted on 06/02/2008 12:04:05 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: popdonnelly

I’ll bet all the early state RAT voters would like a do-over.


5 posted on 06/02/2008 12:04:05 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: popdonnelly

The MSM doesn’t even bother with the primary results anymore, they just go to The Messiah and his speech after each state primary beating and pretend the massacre never happened.

The idiotic Obama is getting creamed regularly, I can’t remember anything like this happening in any presidential primary in my life time.


6 posted on 06/02/2008 12:06:52 PM PDT by right turn at the light
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To: pissant
If these figures are accurate, it indicates Obama may actually be in more trouble than generally thought. Demographically, South Dakota is a near twin to North Dakota, which Obama won 61-37 on Super Tuesday. The black population is practically nil and most Dakotans, if they know a black person at all, it is the nice professor at the local college, the exchange student athelete on the football team or the clean-cut patriotic young man serving at the local air force base.

Racial tensions are about as near to zero as you can get. I grew up among these people. We can dismiss the rantings of Rev. Wright as mere theatrics. Some of us may have actually even caucused for Obama because we loathe the Clintons so much.

If Obama loses both South Dakota and Montana by big margins, is isn't going to make much of a difference in delegates, because they have so few. But it is going to undermine a key argument that he's bringing states into play where Democrats have been unable to compete.

7 posted on 06/02/2008 12:08:30 PM PDT by Vigilanteman ((Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud))
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To: pissant

AMR is such a pro-Bill/Hill outfit they should get free credentials to write for the NYT.


8 posted on 06/02/2008 12:08:54 PM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: pissant
RUSH: Obama is a LYING IDIOT! Rush said he will be playing Barry's clips on not winning the surge every day now.
9 posted on 06/02/2008 12:09:50 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: right turn at the light

Geraldo called the Puerto Rico landslide for what it was.

He had on an Obama shill from that island yesterday and 5 seconds into his Spiel about how Obama really did pretty well considering . . . Geraldo says:

Come on, he got killed better than 2 to 1!


10 posted on 06/02/2008 12:11:09 PM PDT by prolifefirst
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To: pissant
Perhaps they heard about Barry's gaffe at Mt. Rushmore:

From NRO: [Obama] did express curiosity about the filming of a chase scene in "North by Northwest," Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint that included a death-defying scramble over Rushmore's presidential faces.

"How did they get up there in the first place?" he asked ranger Wesley Jensen.

"They didn't. It was a movie set," Jensen told him.
11 posted on 06/02/2008 12:11:43 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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Too many working class whities in SD, apparently.

Plus they like big butts...which should have been Hillary's campaign song.

12 posted on 06/02/2008 12:12:58 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Better to have your enemy before you than beside you or behind you.)
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To: Beagle8U

You think there might be a little buyer’s remorse on the Dem side right about now?

It doesn’t matter how many times you tell them, they still won’t believe it. The country as a whole is simply far more conservative than the far-left wacko wing of the Democratic Party.

But Noooooo. They’re too dumb to figure this one out. Its pretty sad when you even have Republicans saying that they would vote for Hillary, of all people, before they’d vote for Obama.

The only way that Obama will get elected is if either McCain screws up royally, or if the media gives Obama a free pass and buries his agenda. Unfortunately for the rest of us, both are realistically possible.


13 posted on 06/02/2008 12:14:30 PM PDT by VOR78
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To: pissant

How can this be? The Drive By Media told me this morning that Hillary didn’t stand a chance in South Dakota.


14 posted on 06/02/2008 12:14:48 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Miss Didi

I’m sorry I wasted a day at the average Mt. Rushmore and Badlands instead of devoting that time to Yellowstone, the most beautiful natural thing I’ve ever seen.

Could spend a month there!


15 posted on 06/02/2008 12:15:26 PM PDT by prolifefirst
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To: Miss Didi
"How did they get up there in the first place?" he asked ranger Wesley Jensen.

"They didn't. It was a movie set," Jensen told him.

Next question - How did he get into Harvard?

16 posted on 06/02/2008 12:20:57 PM PDT by Aria (NO RAPIST ENABLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!)
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To: right turn at the light

I agree with what you’re saying about the media. Ignore the fact that he’s getting creamed regularly by hasn’t-got-a-chance Hillary. And I can’t recall another nominating race that was this close in the delegate count.


17 posted on 06/02/2008 12:21:39 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: Vigilanteman
A couple observations from the SD's largest city:

It seems that yard signs run about 65-35 Hillary. Ron Paul signs outnumber both.

Obama is spending a lot of money on media. Tom Daschle drones on about how Obama is "change we can believe in". Hillary's commercials tout her plan for fiscal responsibility, and how we "can't keep borrowing from the Chinese to pay the Saudis for oil". Both seem to be running against Bush as they cite him in their ads.

The city's paper apparently endorsed Hillary even though two weeks ago its editorial board was saying she should drop out.
18 posted on 06/02/2008 12:23:09 PM PDT by philled ("I prefer messy democracy to the stability of tyrants." -- Howar Ziad, Iraqi Ambassador to Canada)
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To: VOR78
I doubt there is any way that Obama could win. I think even the RAT leadership know that but are afraid of losing the affirmative action voters.
19 posted on 06/02/2008 12:24:07 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Vigilanteman

Yesterday on the Sunday Panel, Byron York said that Barry was losing altitude and Juan Williams said he was wheezing toward the finish line.


20 posted on 06/02/2008 12:25:16 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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