(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-03-01 17:12

But she trailed Obama in heavily Democratic northeast Ohio and the growing central Ohio region.

Among Republicans, McCain leads Huckabee 58 percent to 23 percent in Ohio and 54 percent to 31 percent in Texas. The other remaining Republican candidate, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, had 7 percent in Texas and 8 percent in Ohio.

The rolling poll was conducted Wednesday through Friday, with most of the survey coming before Clinton launched a fresh attack on Friday on Obama's ability and experience handling a national security crisis.

She released a new television ad to be aired in Texas showing children sleeping peacefully in bed.

"It's 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. But there's a phone in the White House and it's ringing. Something's happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call," the ad's narrator says

Obama hit back with an ad of his own, which also showed sleeping children and spoke of a White House phone ringing.

"When that call gets answered, shouldn't the president be the one -- the only one -- who had judgment and courage to oppose the Iraq war from the start?" the narrator says.

The poll of 701 likely Democratic voters in Ohio and 708 in Texas had a margin of error of about 4 percentage points. The poll of 600 likely Republican voters in Ohio and 596 voters in Texas had a margin of error in both states of 4 percent.

In a rolling poll, the most recent day's results are added and the oldest day's results are dropped to track changing momentum. The poll will continue until Tuesday.

   1 2   

   1 2