Clinton and Obama’s Poll Numbers Suffer Due To Infighting

Published: July 29, 2007, 9:37 pm

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By Paul Harris Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the Democratic party's frontrunners for the White House, are locked in a battle that has unleashed a raft of negative campaigning as their party debates who should be its 2008 presidential candidate. An ugly fight between the two politicians raged all last week in the first serious bout of open infighting in the current Democratic political campaign. Previous spats had broken out between campaign officials, but now the candidates are openly attacking each other. There are signs that the fight has damaged both the top-tier candidates and perhaps opened a door of opportunity to another Democrat contender. A CNN poll in the vital first voting state of Iowa showed both Clinton and Obama had dropped six per cent each to second and third place respectively. Left-wing candidate John Edwards led the Iowa poll by five points, though he still trails Obama and Clinton in all national polls. Edwards, sensing his moment, has

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