Clinton and Romney win Poll at Iowa State Fair

pstans

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Mon Aug-20-07 10:32 PM
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Clinton and Romney win Poll at Iowa State Fair

Throughout the Iowa State Fair people could cast their kernel for their candidate for choice at the WHO Channel 13 booth. A total of 35,448 kernels were cast in the poll.

The fair ended yesterday and the results are in...

Democrats
Hillary Clinton 33%
John Edwards 28%
Barack Obama 22%
Bill Richardson 13%
Joe Biden 2%
Chris Doddd 1%
Dennis Kucinich 1%
Mike Gravel 0%

Republicans
Romney 36%
Huckabee 17%
Giuliani 14%
Fred Thompson 13%
Tancredo 5%
Brownback 4%
Paul 4%
McCain 3%

The results pretty much fall in line with recent polls on both sides. Clinton being in first place doesn't surprise me because she has high name recognition.

On the Republican side, Huckabee got the bounce from the straw poll to be a legit contender. McCain is shockingly low.

Orginally posted at Century of the Common Iowan.

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Divine Discontent

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Mon Aug-20-07 10:34 PM
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1. McCain can just roll it up....

and smoke it... he's toast.

so happy for JE to be just 5 pts behind HRC! Bad #'s for Giuliani & Thompson. Expected for Huckabee in that area, but I'm BARFING at Romney's #'s.... what'd he do, fly in five thousand of his church & relatives to go knocking door to door for him and then at the end pay for their way into the fair?

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pstans

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Mon Aug-20-07 11:06 PM
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3. There were over 1 mil visitors to the fair over the week and a half

So people voted as they walked by the booth and over 35,000 votes were cast. These aren't party activists or likely voters.

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Divine Discontent

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Tue Aug-21-07 01:29 AM
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7. they're not?

over 1 million people, and a large majority could care less to join in the political fun? sounds like politico types from both parties to me if ever there was one. What, 3.5% cast a poll vote? Definitely those who pay attention to politics.

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SaveElmer

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Mon Aug-20-07 10:37 PM
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2. FIrst a straw poll, now a corn poll...

Well it is a farm state...

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dweller

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Mon Aug-20-07 11:24 PM
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4. and then they fed the livestock

and all the vote records were lost.

and so it goes. Now, shouldn't someones be here to exclaim how this isn't a scientific poll ?

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pstans

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Tue Aug-21-07 12:46 AM
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6. It isn't a scientific poll, but it is pretty darn similar to the polls released recently

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TSIAS

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Mon Aug-20-07 11:34 PM
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5. I really don't understand McCain's unpopularity

I know the base hates him, but 3 % is astoundingly dismal. Of the Top 3 candidates, McCain is by far the most conservative. I've always feared McCain because Democrats buy into the fact that he's a "Maverick". If anything, McCain is a hard right conservative. I know a lot of Democrats who would have chosen him over Gore in 2000. The media has done a terrible job of portraying his actual policy positions. His only "sin" was that he took on the fundies and Jerry Falwell in 2000.

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sampsonblk

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Tue Aug-21-07 01:34 AM
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8. Easy

He ran against Bush in 2000. That is heresy. Then, at the height of Bush's unpopularity, McCain sticks with him on everything that he's hated for. Even immigration reform and this bullshit 'war.'

Had he done the opposite, he'd be the next president.

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