Public Policy Polling's new North Carolina shows Barack Obama ahead for next Tuesday's primary but the lead is cut in half.
Obama 51% (-6)
Clinton 39% (+6)
The bulk of the movement in the race over the last week has come from white voters.The survey last week showed Obama pulling to within five points of Clinton with that group, but her lead now is back up at 56-35.
Crosstabs:
Gender
Women Men
Clinton 42% 35%
Obama 49% 55%
Race
White Black Other
Clinton 56% 9% 17%
Obama 35% 83% 53%
Age 18-29 30-45 46-65 Older Than 65
Clinton 39% 39% 38% 40%
Obama 57% 50% 51% 51%
In other news....
From TPM:
The anti-Obama ad created by the state GOP, centering around Jeremiah Wright, is set to run starting tomorrow, a spokesperson for the North Carolina party just confirmed to me.
State party communications director Brent Woodcox told Election Central that party chair Linda Daves was not discouraged by John McCain's pronouncements last week that the ad shouldn't run. "She just feels that she's going along two parallel roads," said Woodcox. "This is a state party issue, and this is the right judgment call for our state party."
The ad will be running on four stations: WECT, the NBC affiliate in Wilmington; WCTI, the ABC affiliate in Greenville; WLOS, the ABC affiliate in Asheville; and WXII, the NBC affiliate in Greensboro.