August 29, 2007

DEM FIELD: Feel The Kumentum

Daily Kos is conducting their 8/07 WH '08 straw poll. John Edwards currently leads Barack Obama 35% -29% with Hillary Clinton in third with 8%. Dennis Kucinich (7%) has moved past Bill Richardson (6%).

In other non-live telephone polling, Open Left's Chris Bowers refutes 'buzz' that John Edwards has pulled into a tie with Barack Obama for second place in Rasmussen's tracking poll. Bowers argues that since the eventual winner of IA will receive a strong bounce, the race has always been as tight and muddled as IA's virtual three way tie. Bowers does add though:

Still, Edwards does indeed face a serious problem where, despite his frequent and extremely important advantage in Iowa, he severely lags behind Obama and Clinton in terms of news coverage. Unfortunately for Edwards and Edwards supporters, however, that disadvantage has, throughout the campaign, had very little to do with actually being in third place in the nomination campaign. If Edwards is going to break through the two-person horserace narrative, basically the only means I can see is to educate the national media on the importance of winning Iowa.

Posted by Conn Carroll at August 29, 2007 01:03 PM