CBS Poll: Obama Dominant At Pa. Colleges

(CBS)  Most students attending four-year colleges and universities in Pennsylvania are enthusiastic about voting in the presidential campaign, according to a poll conducted by CBS News and UWIRE, and Barack Obama is the overwhelming favorite among those who intend to vote in the Democratic primary.

Among Pennsylvania students who will vote or have voted in a Democratic primary in any state, Obama leads Hillary Rodham Clinton 71 percent to 28 percent, and among those who intend to vote in the Pennsylvania primary, Obama leads by a nearly identical margin of 71 percent to 29 percent. Support for Obama is consistent across types and sizes of schools.

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Pennsylvania college students also say that John McCain has the experience a president needs and think he would be an effective commander-in-chief.

The level of enthusiasm and interest in the campaign is high and exists among freshman and seniors, men and women and in various public and private institutions across the state.

Nearly nine in 10 students attending four-year colleges and universities in Pennsylvania who registered to vote in any state are paying attention to the 2008 presidential campaign, including 42 percent who are paying a lot of attention. Those numbers aren't as high as voters of all ages nationwide, of whom 60 percent said they were paying a lot of attention in a CBS News poll conducted in March.

Fifty-six percent of registered Pennsylvania college students described themselves as very enthusiastic about voting for president in 2008, while 31 percent said they were somewhat enthusiastic. Only 23 percent agree-even somewhat-that things will be the same no matter who is elected president.

Looking ahead to November, Pennsylvania college students prefer either Democratic candidate over presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. In an Obama/McCain match-up, Obama leads by an overwhelming 71 percent to 29 percent, and if Clinton is the Democratic nominee, she leads McCain by a smaller margin of 58 percent to 42 percent.

UWIRE is a news service powered by student journalists at more than 800 colleges across the country.

[blackspirit3]

TONY PERKINS A MCCAIN SUPPORTER - Tony Perkins is President of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council Perkins addressed the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), America''''s premier white supremacist organization, the successor to the White Citizens Councils, which battled integration in the South. In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. SHOULD MCCAIN DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM MR PERKINS?

[blackspirit3]

TONY PERKINS A MCCAIN SUPPORTER - Tony Perkins is President of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council Perkins addressed the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), America''''s premier white supremacist organization, the successor to the White Citizens Councils, which battled integration in the South. In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. SHOULD MCCAIN DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM MR PERKINS?

[grammawhamma]

I have four daughters who are young adults. The 25 year old said she would vote for Obama because he represents "Change". When I asked her what kind of change...she just said "it''s time for something different, I don''t know". The 23 year old would vote for Obama because he is black and it would be cool to vote for the first black president. The 22 year old would vote for McCain because he is older and knows what he is doing and he makes her feel safer. The 19 year old would vote for Obama...because she thinks he is hot. Scary huh?

[obama8years]

OBAMA AND REV WRIGHT Supporting Radical ISLAM..NOW WHAT WE DO? THIS IS A FACT,....NOT FICTION or I wouldnt be wasting my time!!!

%u201CI can no more disown him than I can disown the black community,%u201D said Obama. So then it is clear that Obama believes that Wright%u2019s ideas represent the black community and black experience in America when they represent only the radicalized fringe of black America that wants to aid America%u2019s enemies abroad. It is doubtful many black Americans who served proudly in the US military feel the same as Wright on this issue.
%u2028What is more, militant Islamists see a potential to sow internal problems and promote their fascist goals in the US by trying to divide the American black community against the US government. Whereas blacks have been exploited in the past, this is now seen as a way to achieve the goals of expanding the Muslim ummah inside the US from in the Middle East. That is why Libya gives money to Farrakhan and why the ISM and Sabeel work with Reverend Wright whose personal interpretations of Christianity are entrenched in Obama%u2019s mind as the True Word of Christianity. Wright actually visited Mohammar Ghaddafi in Libya with Farrakhan in the past.

[rufisgufis]

You really can''t blame Hillary about her "harrowing experience" at the Tuzla airport. It''s really easy to confuse dodging snipers'' bullets, running for cover with a comedian and and guitar player with receiving a peace poem from a child. A natural mistake any Clinton might make.

[libra127]

Is Hilary Clinton a revengeful person? Is she full of Anger toward her husband for the Stained Blue Dress incident for which he''s been impeached?

Posted by trishab4 at 11:42 PM : Apr 19, 2008

Have you been in a coma for the last 10 years, trish ? LOL.

[jgunther7]

REALITYCALLS: You are no poet, sounds like you are on drugs. I am bitter, mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore.

[joe_llama-2009]

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We feel that the rules governing the primary election are out of date and causing infighting within the party. This could have been avoided with a few fundemental rule changes to the process.

Please take the time to read the objectives. If you agree, please sign the petition and tell the ones you know. Our first goal is 100,000 signees.

Thanks
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[trishab4]

Is Hilary Clinton a revengeful person? Is she full of Anger toward her husband for the Stained Blue Dress incident for which he''s been impeached?

Does she deserve the White House? Isn''t she too angry and revengeful to hold such authority position? She then may ban all contacts between men and women. She could become like the Ayatollahs in Iran. If She were President, she may very well push for such laws...

[trishab4]

Since she admitted that Barrack Obama can win the WhiteHouse why doesn''t she give up and ask for vice-president position, in order to unite the Democratic Party? To heal the wounds?