Obama winning over Clinton backers
California Democrats and independent voters who backed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton have gravitated in huge numbers to Sen. Barack Obama - a consolidation of support that has given him a 24-point lead over Republican rival John McCain in the nation's most populous state, the latest Field Poll shows. San Francisco Chronicle in the Daily News.
The poll shows that Clinton's supporters prefer Obama to McCain, 80 percent to 8 percent, and the Illinois senator holds a 2-to-1 lead among California's likely female voters.
However, the poll carries a margin of error of 5.1 percentage points for its questions to 376 likely Democratic and nonpartisan voters asked about Obama's running mate.
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