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Democrats Favor Obama, Latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll Shows
OMAHA, Neb.-(Business Wire)-March 21, 2008 - Opinion Research Corporation (an infoUSA Company) (NASDAQ:IUSA) today announced that the results of the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll showed 52% of registered Democrats cited Senator Barack Obama as their favored candidate to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. This finding was based on 463 interviews with registered Democrats conducted via telephone by Opinion Research Corporation, with a sampling error of +/-4.5 percentage points.
When it came to the national election, both Democratic candidates were virtually tied, with Republican nominee John McCain in hypothetical general election match-ups. Senator Clinton would have the support of 49% of voters if she were to win the nomination, compared to 47% for Senator McCain. Senator Obama would have 47% of voter support compared to 46% for Senator McCain. Both results were within the poll's margin of error, indicating a statistical tie. Both results are based on interviews with 950 registered voters with a sampling error of +/- 3.0 percentage points.
The poll was conducted via telephone by Opinion Research Corporation on March 14-16, 2008 among 1,019 adult Americans. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is +/- 3.0 percentage points.
About Opinion Research Corporation
Founded in 1938, Opinion Research Corporation, an infoUSA company, helps its clients grow their business by leveraging the insights of market research. The firm has been conducting national, speech reaction, state and flash/overnight polls for CNN since April 2006. To learn more, visit www.opinionresearch.com.
About infoUSA
infoUSA (www.infoUSA.com), founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer databases for sales leads & mailing lists, database marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing solutions. Content is the essential ingredient in every marketing program, and infoUSA has the most comprehensive data in the industry, and is the only company to own 12 proprietary databases under one roof. The infoUSA database powers the directory services of the top Internet traffic-generating sites. Nearly 4 million customers use infoUSA's products and services to find new customers, grow their sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes. infoUSA headquarters are located at 5711 S. 86th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127 and can be contacted at (402) 593-4500. To know more about Sales Leads, click www.infousa.com. To get a 72-hour free trial and 100 free sales leads, click www.salesgenie.com.
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