Poll: Clinton's lead slips in New York

[Ron Burgundy]

AP - THE RACE: The presidential race for Republicans, Democrats in New York

THE NUMBERS - DEMOCRATS

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 39 percent

Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), 17 percent

Al Gore, 12 percent

John Edwards, 11 percent

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THE NUMBERS - REPUBLICANS

Rudy Giuliani, 47 percent

John McCain (news, bio, voting record), 16 percent

Mitt Romney, 8 percent

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OF INTEREST:

Clinton's favorable rating is slipping at home and New York voters aren't quite as sure they prefer her over Giuliani. Clinton led the former New York City mayor, 51 percent to 39 percent in a March poll from Siena College. Clinton's favorable rating among New York voters was at 50 percent in the latest poll, down from 56 percent last month.

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The telephone poll, done by the Siena College Research Institute, of 980 registered New York state voters was conducted April 16-20. It has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The sampling error margins for the 425 Democrats polled was 5 percentage points and 5.5 percentage points for the 310 Republicans surveyed.

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COMPLETE RESULTS: http://www.siena.edu/sri/results/2007/07_Apr_NYPoll.htm

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070423/ap_on_el_pr/poll2008_new_york [link]