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Debate assault fails to dent Clinton's lead: poll
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Hillary Clinton's lead for the Democratic presidential nomination has held firm despite the battering she recieved at the hands of rivals in a televised debate this week, according to a new poll Saturday.
The Newsweek poll, taken in the wake of the blistering attack on Clinton from Barack Obama, John Edwards and other Democratic White House hopefuls, showed she still led the field among Democratic voters with just two months before the state-by-state voting for party nominees begins.
The poll also showed that one year before the November 4, 2008 presidential election Clinton holds a narrow lead over the leading Republican candidate, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
Among registered and leaning Democrats in the vote Clinton had 43 percent support for the party nomination, far ahead of Obama's 24 percent and Edward's 12 percent. Newsweek said she only lost one percentage point in her lead over Obama, and two in her lead over Edwards from a month earlier, in the wake of the debate.
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AFP

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