IOWA POLL: Edwards on top, Hillary in fourth place ... Ghouliani leads field of pukes

Below are the results of a three-day poll in the state of Iowa. Results are based on telephone interviews with 600 likely Republican cacus goers and 600 likely Democratic cacus goers, aged 18+, and conducted January 19-21, 2007. The margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.

1. If the 2008 Republican presidential caucus were held today between, Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Chuck Hagel, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, John McCain, George Pataki, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo, and Tommy Thompson for whom would you vote? (Republicans Only; Names Rotated)
Rudy Giuliani 25%
John McCain 21%
Newt Gingrich 13%
Mitt Romney 8%
Chuck Hagel 7%
Tommy Thompson 2%
Tom Tancredo 2%
Sam Brownback 2%
Mike Huckabee 1%
George Pataki 1%
Jim Gilmore 1%
Duncan Hunter 1%
Undecided 16%

2. Do you see President George W. Bush as a conservative Republican in the mode of Ronald Reagan? (Republicans Only)
Yes 11%
No 77%
Undecided 12%

3. If the 2008 Democratic presidential caucus were held today between, Joe Biden, Wesley Clark, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, and Tom Vilsack, for whom would you vote? (Democrats Only; Names Rotated)
John Edwards 25%
Barack Obama 17%
Tom Vilsack 16%
Hillary Clinton 15%
Joe Biden 4%
John Kerry 3%
Wesley Clark 2%
Bill Richardson 1%
Chris Dodd 1%
Dennis Kucinich 1%
Undecided 15%

4. When making your selection for a presidential candidate, what are you looking for most in the candidate, charisma, experience, or ideology? (Democrats Only)
Charisma 29%
Ideology 21%
Experience 16%
Undecided 34%

http://www.strategicvision.biz/political/iowa_poll_012407.htm

Yesssssssss!

Take their poll with a grain of salt. However, I'm not sure if their polls are meant to be as biased in primaries, as I'm not sure if they have a horse in the race.

I give this about a 3 out of 10 on the importancemeter.

Living in Iowa, I constantly hear "isn't hillary running" or "isn't our governor running". These types of reactions are usually followed by assurances that they have voted and plan to in 08, but it surely doesn't mean they are planning to vote for either of them.

In fact, it seems like the average joe on the street really doesn't know about half of the so-called field right now. Obama? Most of the city folk know him. Edwards? Everybody remembers him from last time. But who the hell knows Dodd? Most regular folk don't even know Biden, even if they really should.

Name recognition doesn't mean votes, and I think people who respond to phone surveys are probably going on mostly name recognition.

Clinton doesn't have it

Wait till he dresses in drag again......................

The only one on the list who has no "experience" at winning elections is only pulling 2%...

:)

:shrug:

And FDR's charisma and committment to helping people on the bottom saved America.

in which case I'm glad Obama is running ...

Charisma?!?! is the highest ranking of what folks want in a Presidrential candidate? No wonder this country has problems.

and an intangible that people might characterize as charisma.

"smells good" :)

Yes Hillary is technically in fourth but she, Obama, and Vilsack are statistically tied.

I'm not saying we haven't had charismatic leaders, but our guys have the charisma that comes with substance, not with a touchy-feely message. My hang up with Edwards & Obama is that I can see the charm and still can't see the message. Mrs Clinton is at least demonstrably a wonk. I'd vote for any of them if they're nominated. Just being Democrats they'll have better policies. But this charisma hokum is pure truthiness, and its for the birds. The elephant birds.

in this country if that is the main criteria.......

For politically active people in Iowa, the quadrennial caucus season must be fascinating. They're old pros, they know and meet the candidates, and they're trying to pick a winner for their own Democratic Party, for the Party they love. THEY realize that for the nationwide general election electorate, charisma and everything that means - all those shallow good-hair type issues - MATTER!

I saw huckabee on Daily show - he's a funny guy.