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Kentucky anxious, seen leaning Clinton’s way ~Chicago Tribune Clinton leads 62% to 30% today [5/12], effectively unchanged from SurveyUSA polls released 4 weeks, 2 weeks and 1 week ago. That’s quite a lean.  If it leaned much more, it would fall over into West Virginia. P.S.  SurveyUSA had a nice phrase for what will happen on Tuesday: […]
Daniel Larison
May 17, 2008 1:05 PM

Kentucky anxious, seen leaning Clinton’s way ~Chicago Tribune

Clinton leads 62% to 30% today [5/12], effectively unchanged from SurveyUSA polls released 4 weeks, 2 weeks and 1 week ago.

That’s quite a lean.  If it leaned much more, it would fall over into West Virginia.

P.S.  SurveyUSA had a nice phrase for what will happen on Tuesday: “ceremonial trouncing.”

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