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May 6, 2008 6:08 PM

Exit Poll Peak

Polls in Indiana close at 7:00pm ET and at 7:30 in North Carolina, check back with CBSNews.com for full coverage. In the meantime, here is a sneak peak at the early CBS News exit polls:

Most voters in both states made up their minds about who to support before the last week. Seventy six percent of voters in Indiana said they made up their minds before the past week as well as 81 percent of North Carolina voters.

The economy remained the dominant issue for voters in both states, as it has in contests throughout the primary process. Sixty five percent of the voters in Indiana and 60 percent in North Carolina said the economy was the issue they are most concerned with. And over 80 percent of the voters in both states said they have been affected by the slowing economy.

In Indiana, 50 percent of the voters said Hillary Clinton would be more likely to improve the economy as president. In North Carolina, 52 percent said Barack Obama would be.

And about half of voters in each state said the ability to bring change is the quality they are most looking for in a candidate, followed by just less than a quarter who cited experience.

More voters in both states said they believed Clinton attacked her opponent unfairly. Sixty three percent in Indiana and 67 percent in North Carolina said so while 43 percent and 40 percent respectively said they felt Obama had attacked Clinton unfairly.

Supporters of both said they would be unsatisfied with the other candidate as the nominee, but more of Clinton backers in both states said so than Obama supporters. Among Clinton voters in both states, 64 percent said they would be dissatisfied with Obama as the nominee. Fifty eight percent of Obama supporters in Indiana said they would not be satisfied with Clinton as the nominee, compared to 55 percent of his voters in North Carolina.

In both states, 48 percent of all voters said that the situation involving Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright was something that was important in their vote.
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by swm1143 May 6, 2008 6:17 PM PDT
Obama has just too much baggage and has taken on some weird wimpy positions on issues important to democrats.

I just dont trust him!

If he is the nominee, then McCain is going to clean his clock come November.
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by truthyness May 6, 2008 6:57 PM PDT
OBAMA HAS ALREADY LOST BECAUSE 92% OF THE BLACKS HAVE VOTED FOR HIM MAKING HIS VICTORYS TARNISHED BY RACISM.

AMERICA WILL NEVER ACCEPT THIS.
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by kaycey4 May 6, 2008 7:10 PM PDT
OBAMA wins INDIANA BY 1.5% POINT WHILE HE ALSO WIN NC WITH 12-15% POINTS
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by leighg1 May 6, 2008 7:22 PM PDT
May 6th, 2008 4:18 pm ET
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Obama has not made the his argument too harsh for her. The trouble is not she got the proposal wrong, but she got it wrong purposely to fool the voters.

Too bad that Obama does not want to engage in a negative campaign. He could have shown the Hillary Bosnia lie footage over and ever again as she did to him on his %u201Cbitter%u201D comments. If he did, she would be crushed a long time ago. He did not even mention it unless when asked. I am sure the Republicans would if they need to.
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by stirg May 6, 2008 9:03 PM PDT
Kayceed-take the tinfoil off your tv-Indiana was called for hillary-where are you getting your news-little green men????
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by qpublic May 6, 2008 10:22 PM PDT
Now look who the racists are. Nintey percent of blacks are voting for the black candidate. Lets have an honest discussion of who is more racist, blacks or whites.
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by vikki0007 May 7, 2008 2:59 AM PDT
Can anybody tell me why Clinton think she won the Michigan primary. From what I heard on the radio today, (I live in Chicago, IL) from a Michigan caller. Clinton did not win Michigan she got 49% of the vote and 51% of the vote went to other. Does that mean Obama will get the 51% since he followed party rules and did not put his name on the ballot?
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