Watch for dozens of polls in Super Tuesday states to come out a week or so after the New Hampshire primary results come in tonight. The biggest signal of how competitive things are going to be on the Democratic side may be the Super Tuesday state of California, where Hillary Clinton has been leading Barack Obama by double digits for a year (see a roundup of polls on Dave Leip’s site). If Obama wins big in New Hampshire and Clinton decides that Obama has the South Carolina primary locked up, her internal polls in California may be the deciding factor in whether she continues her campaign.
The California test
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The California test
by CommonWealth Staff, CommonWealth Beacon
January 8, 2008
