LE News Iowa poll: Edwards 29%, Obama 29%, Hillary 28%, Richardson 7%, Biden 3%, Dodd 1%, DK 1%

I know that others have posted about this most recent poll, but I am interested in the numbers other than the top three candidates so I wanted to re-post to include Richardson's, Biden's, Dodd's, and Kucinich's numbers.

I wish Kucinich had more support.

I also wish that Dodd's superior record on progressive domestic issues would vault him past Biden and Richardson (two centrists who have better credentials on foreign affairs rather than domestic policy).

The fight between Biden and Richardson for 4th ot 5th place is one of the tightest contests within the Iowa caucus and it will likely determine which of those two candidate drops out before South Carolina. Given that Biden had a molehill peak to sneak ahead of Richardson earlier, it now looks like Richardson may have bumped Biden back to 5th.

C'mon Kucinich! C'mon Dodd!

must be a shitty time to run based on three decades of experience in Congress.

Plus, both Dodd and Biden have the highest percentage of contributions from lobbyists, which cannot be helping them.

I wish Dodd was doing better.

Who has the highest percentage of money from Lobbyist?


Lobbyists
Hillary Clinton (D)
$567,950

John McCain (R)
$340,365

Christopher J. Dodd (D)
$233,875

Mitt Romney (R)
$229,475

Rudolph W. Giuliani (R)
$212,100

Bill Richardson (D)
$134,950

Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D)
$114,460

Fred Thompson (R)
$90,000

Barack Obama (D)
$76,859

Duncan Hunter (R)
$30,900

John Edwards (D)
$18,900

Sam Brownback (R)
$17,225

Mike Huckabee (R)
$6,964

Tom Tancredo (R)
$250





A must see;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAnl7ybDwBg

Given Dodd and Bidens's fundraising numbers the dollars you cite are higher percentages of their total take than Clinton's.

Joe had taken in 8 million when those numbers were reported, so that's aprox. 1.42% of his total contributions.

Dodd's is 1.84%, which the OP seems to be OK with.


Say what you will, but that seems like small change to me. Why don't you compare the corporate donations? That's where the problem is.

It's just bullshit anyway. Biden can't be bought, and that's why he doesn't have the money the others do.

If you have a problem with it, then you do the math. NOTHING you can say about his money will dissapoint ME.

I could care less what you have to say about Biden, and I am SICK of YOU constantly harrassing him,, and all of US who support HIM.


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2007-25%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=13+million+times++1.8%25&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2007-25,GGLG:en&q=8+million+times+1%2E42+%25

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Dollars do. Try again.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zephyr-teachout/lobbyist-for-pakistan-max_b_71379.html

Lobbyist for Pakistan Maxed Out Donations to Clinton
Posted November 6, 2007 | 12:47 PM (EST)


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Like others in the race for the White House, Hillary Clinton has strong words for Pakistan, but has yet to propose the United States seriously consider limiting its aid to the country. But unlike the other leading Democratic presidential hopefuls, Edwards and Obama, she has accepted tens of thousands of dollars from Pakistan's lobbyists, Cassidy & Associates. Its founder, Gerald Cassidy, long ago maxed out his donations to her.

More: see link above.


Info from opensecrets.org

P R E S I D E N T I A L C A N D I D A T E
John Edwards (D)
Former NC Senator; 2004 Presidential Candidate
Edwards is maintaining his steady fundraising pace behind Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, though he has announced that he will be accepting $10 million in public funding-and is encouraging the others to do the same. At the end of the 3rd Quarter, Edwards had $30.3 million, which means he will easily reach the $35 million his campaign originally said he'd need to bring in to be competitive in the early primaries. The former North Carolina senator has vowed not to accept money from registered lobbyists or PACs and only had minimal debt to re-pay after his 2004 campaign.

Total Receipts: $30,329,152
Total Spent: $17,932,103
Cash on Hand: $12,397,048
Debts: $0
Date of last report: September 30, 2007
Totals may include compliance fund receipts



http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.asp?id=N00002283&cycle=2008


For the record: Edwards is not taking monies from lobbyist.

the one who seems to be perceived as having the most "experience" and also polls well in other areas that would benefit Dodd or Biden if she weren't in the race. So.... for some reason, Biden and Dodd don't seem to have connected as well as Hillary has, so far anyway. Anything can change though.

He'd have this nomination process locked!

Anti-corporate message is going to win it.

I am going to go up & campaign for him in NH!

one thing seems evident: No one is pulling away from the others.

nonsense.

The top three will be Edwards, Hillary, and Obama. Guaranteed.

Gravel will finish last. Guaranteed.

Between Biden, Dodd, Richardson, and Kucinich, their performance will depend on how well their support is concentrated. Some may think the order is important (and I agree that who ever loses between Biden and Richardson will be gone before South Carolina so the finish isn't meaningless), but am sure that none of them will get any delegates. Guaranteed

Anyone know?

such as Rasmussen where Edwards has an 8 point edge, its going to be a very good night!

Often times, they leave his name out.

This also cannot be seen as the would be results of a caucus. Only 10% of truly motivated people show up to caucus, and those people will be fighting for the only candidate with credibility- Kucinich.

And check this out
Kucinich Wins Virginia Democratic Party Poll
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_071228_kucinich_wins_virgin.htm

They want us to give up. It is called manufactured reality. They tell us who is winning according to who they want, then they fix the elections according to who they want. Kucinich supporters need to be ready to fight AND do their own exit polls. They will attempt to fix the primary- why wouldn't they. WE have to fight back.


http://peacecandidates.com/

and has one staffer working out his house for the whole state. Please, support him but facts shown he's written off the state to concentrate on NH.

Iowa

Presidential Caucus Preference:



Iowa
Likely Democratic Caucus Goers Nov 10-14 Nov 26-29 Dec 16-19 Dec 20-23

Biden 5% 8% 8% 8%
Clinton 27% 25% 29% 34%
Dodd 3% 3% 3% 2%
Edwards 20% 23% 18% 20%
Gravel - - - -
Kucinich 2% 2% 2% 2%
Obama 21% 27% 25% 19%
Richardson 12% 4% 7% 5%
Undecided 10% 8% 8% 10%

Granted - there is a wide gap between Biden and the top tier. But you never know!

Hotline, etc.

The facts will come out on Jan 3rd. Get your oxygen tank filled.

but so could Dodd, Kucinich, or Richardson.

I all but had the champagne poured and had blogged a victory post for Kerry. I have zero faith in polls.

And compare polls by the same organization, i.e., ARG to ARG, Strategic Vision to Strategic Vision, Research 2000 to Research 2000 etcetera, they (all) show the same phenomenon regardless of the headline numbers and that is HRC and JRE are rising and Obama falling:

Please don't take my word for it...Look for yourself:


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/ia/iowa_democratic_caucus-208.html

It's like a footballl game... Your team is up by fourteen at the end of the third quarter... Midway through the fourt quarter your team is now only up by three...You don't have to be Jimmy The Greek to say how it's going to end...

The battle is between JRE and HRC for one and two...

As to the expectations game the press is ignoring Edwards' and Clinton's surge...They think they are helping Obama but they aren't... If they want to help him they should diminish expectations...

I agree.

It's about to get really interesting!

drop out.

I suspect that two of the three, if not all three, won't make it to Huge-Tuesday.

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