http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/black-support-shifts-toward-obama/A new national poll released Friday by CNN suggests Senator Barack Obama’s victory in Iowa and other events in recent months have encouraged more black voters to support him.
The poll shows that Mr. Obama is now backed by 59 percent of black Democrats, up from 33 percent in a similar poll in October.
At the same time, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has lost support among black voters. Thirty-one percent of black Democrats said they were likely to support her for the nomination, down from 57 percent in October.
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The poll was conducted Jan. 14-17, just a little more than a week after Senator Clinton’s win in New Hampshire and the controversies surrounding remarks she, her husband and surrogates of her campaign had made that were considered by many to be either racially insensitive or critical of Mr. Obama.