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|  #1 Posted on 9.10.03 1140.30
Reposted on: 9.10.10 1141.33 | New poll says that the more things change, the more they stay the same:
Candidate: October Sept, Aug, July
Howard Dean: 29% 31% 28% 19%
John Kerry: 19% 21% 21% 25%
Joe Lieberman: 6% 5% 4% 6%
Dick Gephardt: 6% 8% 10% 10%
Wesley Clark: 5% 2% 1% 2%
John Edwards: 3% 2% 2% 2%
Bob Graham: 1% 2% 2% 2%
Dennis Kucinich: 1% 1% 0% 1%
Carol Moseley Braun: 1% 1% 0% 1%
Al Sharpton: 0% 0% 0% 1%
Undecided: 29% 27% 32% 30%
Undecided has pulled into a tie with Dean(again). The closer this gets to the end of the year with nobody pulling ahead makes it more interesting, but it's definately bad news for the Dems.
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| #2 Posted on 9.10.03 1512.12
Reposted on: 9.10.10 1513.42 | The closer this gets to the end of the year with nobody pulling ahead
Uh, Dean is ten points ahead of John Kerry and Kerry is thirtee points ahead of everybody else. How is that not "pulling ahead" in NH, assuming that the undecided vote spreads even slightly evenly?
In any case, the numbers are pretty much irrelevant. Remember in 1992 Bill Clinton only got six percent of the primary vote in Iowa (Tom Harkin came in first) and then only came in second in New Hampshire and South Carolina (behind Paul Tsongas) and didn't start dominating the primaries till halfway through the season.
Republicans tend to choose their candidate early on (W, Bob Dole, Reagan) and rally behind him early. Democrats tend to throw an entire bunch of people into the fray and see who emerges (Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, even John F. Kennedy). It's just a difference in how the parties do things, and saying that the Democrats are inefficient for not following the Republican model doesn't really compute. | Grimis
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| #3 Posted on 9.10.03 1544.06
Reposted on: 9.10.10 1544.27 | Originally posted by godking
The closer this gets to the end of the year with nobody pulling ahead
Uh, Dean is ten points ahead of John Kerry and Kerry is thirtee points ahead of everybody else. How is that not "pulling ahead" in NH, assuming that the undecided vote spreads even slightly evenly?
Sorry, was referring to the national picture, not NH specifically... | godking
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| #4 Posted on 9.10.03 1722.31
Reposted on: 9.10.10 1722.44 | Sorry, was referring to the national picture, not NH specifically...
My point still stands, then.
And again - Bill Clinton didn't emerge until midway through the primary season, neither did Carter, neither did Kennedy. The last two Democrats to win the primaries decisively from the beginning were Gore and Dukakis. Which doesn't mean anything either - I mean, one of the Dem candidates could walk away with everything and then beat Bush, who knows - but again, this is how the Democrats operate, they don't anoint the candidate before the primary season starts. | Grimis
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| #5 Posted on 10.10.03 0609.37
Reposted on: 10.10.10 0613.44 | | And I agree with that. The Democrats ability to stick with the frontrunner has always been suspect. Hell, this goes back to EMK challenging Carter in '80... | | ALL ORIGINAL POSTS IN THIS THREAD ARE NOW AVAILABLE |
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