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Released: February 26, 2007 Hillary Holds On; Giuliani Expands Lead in National Primary Tests Obama advances, but McCain fades in partisan contests; Obama, Giuliani do best in general election match-ups New York Sen. Hillary Clinton clings to a shrinking lead over Illinois Senator Barack Obama in a national test of Democratic primary voter preference, while Republican Rudy Giuliani is expanding his edge over John McCain, the maverick senator from Arizona, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows. The survey was the first since last week’s very public spat between the Clinton and Obama campaigns over Hollywood fund–raising and the conduct...

The former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, took a strong lead in the race to win the Republican party's presidential nomination yesterday.An opinion poll gave him a 22-point lead on John McCain, the veteran senator and former favourite. Mr Giuliani was hailed as an American hero for his dignified and unflustered handling of the fraught aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Yesterday that legacy appeared to have caught the imagination of Republican voters. A poll conducted by Quinnipiac University showed that 40 per cent of them would choose him to succeed President George W Bush next year and lead...