Barack Obama has just a 7-point lead in North Carolina.
In a recent poll, the Democratic presidential candidate had 51 percent of the vote, followed by Hillary Clinton at 44 percent, 2 percent another candidate and 3 percent were undecided.
Among black voters, 88 percent supported Obama; 5 percent, Clinton; 3 percent, another candidate; and 4 percent undecided.
Among white voters, 66 percent supported Clinton; 30 percent, Obama; 2 percent, another candidate; and 2 percent were undecided.
The statewide poll of 500 likely Democratic voters was conducted April 29-30 in North Carolina by Research 2000 for McClatchy Newspapers and MSNBC.
The margin of error is 4.5 percentage points.




Re: Obama 51, Clinton 44
And closing fast. The shine is off the Messaiah, and people don't like the wimpy pouty guy behind the curtain. Hill's got real courage and fight. By contrast, Obama's late and feeble handling of the Wright issue utterly looks like exactly what wright said: Obama making political decisions after working out the spin with axelrod. Its painfully obvious: Wright keeps saying the same things -- for 20 years, on the tapes Obama took to Harvard to study him, in the clips last month and this weekend. Obama just now, when it's hurting him big time while he's already tanking, decides to divorce him. Oh, sure, that's a principled stand on the issue. He used Wright to build a political constituency in Chicago, then was afraid to dump him in March cuz he needed the black vote, now that he's tanking with whites -- whoops, under the weels you go, jeremiah.
Speaking of which, what has he done to deserve the black vote besides being black? He doesn't go to important events, doesn't campaign in black neighborhoods, doesn't support black press with ad money.