2/4/2008, 10:48 a.m. EST (AP) — THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans nationally
THE NUMBERS - DEMOCRATS
Barack Obama, 49 percent
Hillary Rodham Clinton, 46 percent
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THE NUMBERS - REPUBLICANS
John McCain, 44 percent
Mitt Romney, 29 percent
Mike Huckabee, 18 percent.
Ron Paul, 6 percent
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OF INTEREST:
Obama is about even with Clinton in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination for the first time in the CNN-Opinion Research Corp., poll.
McCain has widened his lead in the GOP race over Romney since mid-January.
More than half of Republicans and Democrats think the Super Tuesday voting by about two dozen states will not give their party a clear leader for the presidential nomination.
A third of Republicans think McCain will emerge from the day's voting as the clear winner, far more than Romney. Slightly more Democrats think Clinton will essentially wrap up the nomination battle than say Obama will do so.
Seven in 10 Republicans say they would be satisfied with McCain as nominee, six in 10 say so for Romney. Democrats enthusiasm is higher: 79 percent said they would be satisfied with a Clinton nomination, 85 percent feel the same about Obama.
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The CNN-Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted by telephone from Feb. 1-3. It involved interviews with 1,192 adults and had an overall margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. It included 412 registered Republicans and 500 registered Democrats. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 5 percentage points for Republicans and 4.5 points for Democrats.