(AP) - The latest nationwide Gallup poll shows Barack Obama with an 8-point lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton among Democratic voters.
It's the first statistically significant lead he's held in the Gallup survey since the controversy arose over sermons by the candidate's longtime pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
It also matches the largest lead he's had since Gallup began nightly polling in early January.
Fifty percent of respondents to the poll said they prefer Obama, while 42 percent picked Clinton. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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