Huckabee … 3%

T. Thompson … 3%

Brownback … 2%

Hunter … 2%

Tancredo … 2%

Someone else/ Don't know … 17%

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Q: If the 2008 presidential election were held today and you had the following two choices, whom do you lean more toward:

(Among voters)

Clinton (D) … 44%

Romney (R) … 37%

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Obama (D) … 50%

Romney (R) … 31%

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Giuliani (R) … 45%

Edwards (D) … 43%

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Edwards (D) … 44%

McCain (R) … 40%

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Edwards (D) … 50%

Romney (R) … 30%

*Less than 0.5%

Note: 2008 matchups do not add up to 100% because some answer categories are not shown.

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The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll contacted 1,373 adults nationwide by telephone April 5- 9. Included are 1,246 registered voters, among them 557 Democratic primary voters and 437 Republican voters. The 2008 presidential election matchup questions were split among two random subgroups of 603 and 643 voters respectively. Telephone numbers were chosen randomly from a list of all exchanges in the nation, and random-digit dialing techniques allowed listed and unlisted numbers to be contacted. Multiple attempts were made to contact each number. Areas with higher concentrations of African American households were disproportionately contacted in a separate random national sample to allow a more accurate analysis of that subgroup. Results in both samples were weighted slightly to conform with adults' respective census proportions by sex, ethnicity, age, education and national region. The margin of sampling error for all adults and all registered voters is plus or minus 3 percentage points. For Democratic primary voters it is plus or minus 4 points and for Republican voters it is plus or minus 5. For each of the split subgroups, the margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points. For certain other subgroups, the error margin may be somewhat higher. Poll results may also be affected by factors such as question wording and the order in which questions are presented.

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Source: Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll