[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.

[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?