Here's the lede:
Despite her campaign's relentless attacks on Barack Obama's qualifications and electability, Hillary Clinton has lost a lot of ground with Democratic voters nationwide going into Tuesday's critical primary in Pennsylvania, a new NEWSWEEK poll shows.
And the link.
The current spread is 54-35, a leap for Obama of 19 points. It has a MOE of +/- 3. The previous Newsweek poll, in March, showed a statistically irrelevant Obama lead of 45-44.
Some interesting minutaie from the poll data:
It also shows Obama leading McCain 48-44 with 8 undecided (this is up from 46-45 in early March).
Hillary leads McCain 47-43 with 10 undecided. Interestingly, BOTH Hillary and McCain dropped from early March (which had Hillary beating McCain 48-46), with Undecideds predicatably increasing from 6 to 10.
While it shows Obama trailing McCain in Independents, 44-46, it's far less than Clinton's showing in this category: 35-51.
Interesting, also, however, that among DEMOCRATS, Hillary polls slightly better vs. McCain than Obama does. Obama beats McCain 78-14 among Dems, while Hillary beats McCain 83-9. That seems significant -- and maybe explained by the still-warm bitterness of the losing candidate's supporters.
B/t/w, Newsweek also polled Gore vs. McCain with the caveat of "Suppose that neither Clinton nor Obama is able to secure the Democratic nomination and the party turns to Al Gore as its presidential candidate ..." Gore won 49-46 with 5 undecided. Gore grabs the same 44% of Independents as Obama but McCain grabs 2% more vs. Gore than he did Obama (48).
Realizing much of this is statistical hashbrowns ... I'm still curious of everyone's thoughts.
UPDATE: I meant to include this in original.
Obama beats Hillary in ALL demographics polled EXCEPT FOR WORKING CLASS/POOR WHITES:
Obama Clinton Undec/Other
CURRENT TOTAL 54 35 11
Democrats 51 38 11
Independents/Other 61 28 11
Males 57 31 12
Females 52 38 10
Whites 46 42 12
Blacks 84 6 10
Age 18-39 62 28 10
Age 40-59 54 36 10
Age 60+ 47 41 12
Upper/MC whites 52 35 13
Working/poor whites 35 54 11
It shows he still has a lot of work to do with this demographic ...