THE NUMBERS - DEMOCRATS

Hillary Clinton 41 percent

Barack Obama 28 percent

John Edwards 13 percent

(all other candidates below 5 percent)

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The Field poll was conducted March 20-31. For the Democratic candidates, 417 voters who say they are likely to vote in the Democratic primary in California were asked their preference to win the Democratic nomination. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 5 points.

Clinton gets the strongest support among Hispanics, older voters, those with less education and those in Los Angeles County. Obama does well among young voters. Edwards did better among voters in Northern California than Southern California.