Clinton leads poll of voters in Mo.

ST. LOUIS -- Missouri voters seem ready to put a Democrat in charge of the White House, but they still have misgivings about both parties' top candidates, according to a new poll.

Likely voters in the state want change because they're upset with the Iraq war, illegal immigration, President Bush and the direction of the country, according to the poll conducted last week by Maryland-based Research 2000 for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV.

The Post-Dispatch reported Sunday that the survey of 800 likely Missouri voters showed them favoring the top Democrat, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., over the top Republican, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Clinton also came out ahead in matchups with each of the three other highest-polling Republican contenders: former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson and Arizona Sen. John McCain.

The two other leading Democrats, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina senator John Edwards also outpolled all four top Republicans, but generally by smaller margins than Clinton.

Clinton's edge over each Republican rival was outside the poll's margin of error of 3.5 percentage points for each number, with the exception of John McCain, who trailed her by 5 percentage points.