Looking into Clinton's Growing California Lead

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

This morning's Field Poll was full of headlines about Sen. Hillary Clinton's 30-point lead over Sen. Barack Obama and 39 point edge over John Edwards. But what's behind the headlines is what interested me. (Full disclosure: my boss at my day job, Speaker Fabian Nunez, has endorsed Clinton and I supported Edwards last time around).
 
What's particularly stunning is that Clinton leads -- and by substantial margins -- among EVERY category of voter. Obama's narrowest gap is among college graduates, where Clinton's lead is "just" 19 points.
 
Field consolidated African-American and Asian-American voters for some reason (small sample size, I suspect). Still Clinton holds a dominant 52-28 percent lead. And among Latinos, it's a blowout. Clinton has a whopping 63-14 percent edge, with Edwards on Obama's heels at 12 percent.
 
And to our friends at Calitics and Daily Kos, even ideologically, Clinton leads strongly among progressives: 47-22 among "strong liberals" and 44-18 over "moderate" liberals.
 
When paired against Republican candidates, Clinton also does substantially better than Obama and Edwards. For example, she has a 52-37 percent edge over Guiliani, 55-35 percent lead over Romney and Thompson, and 52-35 percent lead over McCain. Obama's lead is just 10 points over Guiliani, for example. Edwards does even worse, with just a five percent margin.