Sunday, September 21

Clark Debuts At #1 On This Week's Top 40

Newsweek Poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates. Sept. 18-19, 2003. N=377 registered Democrats and independents who lean Democratic nationwide. MoE ± 6.

"Now I'm going to name 10 Democrats in the race for president. After I read you their names, tell me which ONE you would most like to see nominated as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 2004. Here are the choice . . . ." (July '03 in parenthesis)

Wesley Clark 14% (n/a)
Howard Dean 12% (12%)
Joseph Lieberman 12% (13%)
John Kerry 10% (10%)
Dick Gephardt 8% (14%)
Al Sharpton 7% (6%)
John Edwards 6% (6%)
Bob Graham 4% (7%)
Carol Mosely Braun 2% (3%)
Dennis Kucinich 2% (2%)
Dean's and Kerry's numbers were unaffected by Clark's numbers here - other than everyone's rank going down a notch with Clark's debut. Gephardt and Graham took pretty big whacks. But with a margin of error of a whopping 6%, this is pretty much a non-story here. Just interesting.