(CNN) - Even as she faces pressure from some to call her White House bid quits, Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead in West Virginia, according to a new poll released Friday.
Clinton has a 43-point advantage over Obama, 66 percent to 23 percent, according to a new survey from the American Research Group.
The poll was conducted entirely after Tuesday's primary results, and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
The poll suggests Clinton’s white, working class base seems to be holding firm for her - at least in West Virginia, where that demographic makes up a substantial portion of the Democratic electorate.
West Virginia, one of the six contests left in the Democratic presidential race, votes next Tuesday.
(CNN) - CNN's Candy Crowley reports Barack Obama is close to overtaking Hillary Clinton in the superdelegate gap, in Friday's edition of the CNN=Politics Daily Podcast.
CNN's Mary Snow reports John McCain and Barack Obama are trading jabs in what could be a preview of the upcoming general election match-up.
And, a wedding in Crawford. CNN's Elaine Quijano has the details of Jenna Bush's private wedding Saturday at the Bush ranch in Texas.
Finally, CNN's Jennifer Mikell sums up the week's most memorable moments from the campaign trail.
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For all those like Mitt Romney who said, when talking about Barack Obama, "The presidency of the United States is not an internship," consider this.
The young guy with not nearly as much political experience is on the verge of toppling one of the most powerful political names of the last 50 years, Hillary Clinton. For all her claims of having more experience, the relative newcomer proved to have a lot more moxie.
She said "experience." He said "change."
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WASHINGTON (CNN) - Whenever I interview a major newsmaker, I always marvel at the pickup of the interview by other news organizations and the reaction from interested parties. The latest case in point is my interview this week with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
During the interview, I asked Obama to react to a suggestion from Republican presidential candidate John McCain that the Democrat was the preferred candidate of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Obama replied that that assertion was “offensive” and “a smear.” He then added: “And so for him to toss out comments like that I think is an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination.”
It didn’t take very long for the McCain campaign to respond. “First,” McCain’s senior adviser Mark Salter wrote in a memo, “let us be clear about the nature of Senator Obama’s attack today. He used the words ‘losing his bearings’ intentionally, a not particularly clever way of raising John McCain’s age as an issue. This is typical of the Obama style of campaigning.”
(CNN) - Barack Obama picked up another superdelegate Friday, narrowing Hillary Clinton's advantage to three.
Democratic National Committee Member Ed Espinoza formally endorsed Obama, saying he has "the character to lead our great nation."
“I am endorsing Barack Obama today because throughout this process I have seen him show a judgment and character that we need in our next president," he said in a statement released by the campaign. "From day one he opposed the Iraq war and has a plan to end the war in a responsible way and bring our sons and daughters home."
Espinoza is a former supporter of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's presidential bid.
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