Volume 54, Number 14 · September 27, 2007
Citizen Gore
By Michael Tomasky
The Assault on Reason
by Al Gore
Penguin, 308 pp., $25.95
The race for the Democratic presidential nomination is more up in the air than it seems. Much has been made on cable news channels of Hillary Clinton's lead, which has grown since the spring to 22 points over Barack Obama, according to a recent USA Today poll.[1] But national polls are meaningless because we choose nominees state by state, and in the crucial early primary states, such as New Hampshire, the picture is far different. The best snapshot we've been given to date of Iowa, for example, is to be found in a Washington Post–ABC News poll from the same week showing Obama with 27 percent, leading both Clinton and John Edwards by a (statistically insignificant) single point.[2] In other early-voting states, surveys similarly show that the race is much closer than suggested by the national polls.[3]
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