A poll conducted early this month showed that Senator Hillary Clinton widens her lead over Senator Barack Obama on the Democratic presidential nomination by 22 percent. The result came after the two candidates quarreled about their position on the foreign policies of the country during the CNN/You Tube Debate recently. Clinton gained an upper hand when she said she will only meet with the leaders of countries hostile to the United States after a set of preconditions have been set and agreed by both parties. She displayed a more mature outlook compared to Obama who said that he will meet with foreign leaders during his first year of presidency without any prequalification.
Clinton later on commented that the position taken by Obama in matters concerning foreign policy is “naïve”. The sentiment of Clinton was echoes by many democrats who now believed that Clinton is the better person to handle foreign policies involving hostile nations. Many staunch supported of the Democratic Party expressed their confidence that if elected president, Clinton will be able to handle the conflict in Iraq and in other areas of the world where the United States is currently involved.
While the Clinton camp rejoiced over the result of the polls, the Obama camp tried to reassure their supporters that the recent poll is irrelevant. They pointed out that the results of the different polls have been inconsistent. The Obama camp said that the results of the poll are non-conclusive and that Obama is still very much in the race for the Democratic nomination.
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