Watch CNN's Bill Schneider analyze the new poll » "The survey suggests that for the Democrats, a three-way race may have effectively become a two-way race," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

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In a national survey by CNN/Opinion Research Corp., 59 percent of black Democrats backed Obama, an Illinois Democrat, for their party's presidential nomination, with 31 percent su ...

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Mitt Romney is arguing that the era of easy choices on the federal budget is over, and that rich Americans like him will have to shoulder more of the burden. As the national debt climbs and interest ...