Howard Dean Now Clear Democratic Leader in National Poll (Moseley-Braun Beats Ketchup Boy!)

PR Newswire ^ | December 11, 2003

[PJ-Comix]

UNBELIEVABLE!!! Even Carol Moseley-Braun now beats Ketchup Boy by two points! I guess Ketchup Boy will now have to send out more flyers reminding everybody how he is a Vietnam Veteran.

[ladtx]

Kerry's a viet vet? Imagine that.

[ConservativeDude]

don't fail to note that sharpton is only a point behind clark and gephardt....if either CMB or AS were not in the race, the remaining candidate might well be in second place, at about 12, edging out JL.

i always thought sharpton would run strong....we'll see how this plays out.

[PJ-Comix]

Carol Moseley-Braun---6%

Ketchup Boy-------------4%

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

[Theodore R.]

The Harris Poll usually overstates Democrat strength. As I vaguely recall, Mrs. Harris was once an active DNC figure. Lou Harris is highly partisan too. Maybe someone knows the story behind the Harris Poll.

[Always Right]

The Harris Poll(R) finds that Dean is now the preferred candidate of 21% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, with a strong lead over Senator Joe Lieberman (10%), who is in second place, and all the other candidates.

Cool, a battke between the two ends of the party. Could get nasty as Deaniacs hate Liberman.

[thoughtomator]

Even worse... Sharpton at 6% apparently has 50% more support than Kerry!

[Aquinasfan]

Isn't the Democratic Party excluding Braun and Sharpton from some debates while including Kerry and Edwards, who are trailing them in the polls? (I wouldn't know because I don't watch the debates.)

[putupon]

Even Carol Moseley-Braun now beats Ketchup Boy by two points!

Now that's embarassing. I'll bet he used the F-word a few times when he saw those numbers.

[dano1]

A lot of people were talking about Edwards too, and he is at 3%, even worse than Kerry. Very strange. I still don't understand the Democratic primary system though. Robert Novak is saying that if Dean wins in Iowa and New Hampshire he basically has a lock on it, because the system is so front-loaded now. How can it be that front-loaded? Is there still a "Super Tuesday?". If so, when is it?

[TheGeezer]

The last debate sponsored by the DNC was a couple of weeks ago. I recall something about news organziations no longer following the bottom two or three contenders, however...

[11th Earl of Mar]

Kerry is going to start limping soon from an old war injury. And he begin telling everyone he has discovered he is an african-american and a Yankees fan.

[dano1]

Imagine what it would look like if Moseley-Brown wasn't in it. Sharpton might be at number two.

[dead]

"Why are you shaking hands with that clown?"

"I guess I just felt sorry for him when I heard he’s
fallen behind Carol Mosley Braun in the polls!"

[Petronski]

F*¢k!!

[My2Cents]

The bottom fell out of John "F-in'" Kerry's support once his interview with Rolling Stone proved that he suffers from Tourrette's Syndrome.

[dighton]

[Positive]

"....if either CMB or AS were not in the race, the remaining candidate might well be in second place, at about 12"

I don't find anything particularly surprising or relevant about Sharpton’s and Mosely-Braun’s numbers. My reasoning is that this is a poll of Dimocats, 95% of blacks are Dimocrats and 95% of blacks vote for blacks, hence the CMB and AS numbers.

Neither can win the nomination nor is it likely either stay in throughout the primaries, so those black votes will be spread among the “front runners.”

So, when you consider that blacks amount to about 13% of the population and 95% of the blacks vote black when given the opportunity…95% of 13% is 12.3 %...just about the cumulative total of the AS and CMB percentages, it just makes too much sense.

Of course I recognize one little fly in my logical ointment…that is how many of the participants in the poll know that AS and CMB are black?

[templar]

Kerry's a viet vet? Imagine that.

He was onb a gunboat on the Mekong. A real life war hero type. He received a Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, and three awards of the Purple Heart for his service in combat.

Perhaps one of the Purples was for a head wound ... it would explain a lot.

[KellyAdmirer]

Spend it all, John, spend it all, you can win, loan your campaign more money, we're all just waiting for more of your ads to convince us to vote for you....