Poll Smoking - Get your poll smoked daily! - Washington: Obama 53% McCain 35%

(Rasmussen) - Barack Obama has jumped far ahead of John McCain in Washington, but most voters there don’t want Hillary Clinton as his running mate, a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey has found.

Obama who led McCain 51% to 40% a month ago has opened up an 18% lead in the state. Fifty-three percent (53%) of likely Washington voters now support the Democrat as opposed to 35% who back his Republican opponent.

Five percent (5%) favor a third-party candidate, and 7% are undecided.

In the survey taken Monday night, the first since Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, voters by a sizable margin (52% to 31%) do not want him to choose Mrs. Clinton as his running mate. However, 48% of Democrats would like to see the former First Lady on the ticket. Nationally, slightly over half of Democrats want Mrs. Clinton on the ticket. Read More

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