Newsweek has a
new national poll post-Gore endorsement, and the results are as expected. Dean got the big boost. MoE +/- 6%. (11/6-7 results in parenthesis)
Dean 24 (16)
Don't Know 14 (21)
Clark 12 (15)
Lieberman 12 (8)
Gephardt 10 (9)
Sharpton 5 (4)
Kerry 5 (7)
Edwards 5 (6)
Braun 3 (7)
Other 3 (1)
Kucinich 2 (2)
Kerry and Edwards are at the Sharpton line, quite embarrassing. Lieberman may have gotten a pity boost after his whining about the Gore "betrayal". As for Clark, who knows?
One thing's for sure -- nearly a quarter of the vote in a 9-candidate field is pretty impressive. Dean should make out like a bandit in next year's make-believe national primary.
As to the head-to-head matchups with Bush:
Bush 49 (49)
Dean 42 (45)
Bush 49 (48)
Clark 43 (45)
Bush would do better against the rest of the field. But I'm increasingly convinced that the rest of the field doesn't matter anyway. This is coming down to a Dean/Clark showdown.