dKos Reader Poll. 12/6. 15,834 respondents (as of 3:30 p.m. PT)
2006 2005
Dec Jul May Mar Jan Nov Sep Aug Jul
Edwards 28 15 8 7 8 12 10 7 7
Obama 28
Clark 26 17 15 15 22 26 34 35 34
H. Clinton 5 2 2 2 3 6 8 9 10
Richardson 4 2 1 2 3 5 3 4 4
Kerry 1 2 1 1 3 2 2 1 2
Bayh 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
Vilsack 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Biden 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3
Gravel 0
Dodd 0 0 0
-- not running --
Daschle - 0 1 0
Feingold - 38 44 48 30 19 19 16 10
Warner - 10 10 11 12 14 4 3 5
Note, there's a big fuckup on my part -- I forgot to include "other" and "no freakin' clue". In other words, I pushed leaners. Next month I'll go back to including those two options. But the methodology is a bit screwed up. Sorry about that.
These will be the official final results of today's straw poll, even though the poll is still active right now. The longer it's up, the easier it is for organized freeping efforts to skew its results.
You want analysis? Well, Sen. Dodd is running below some guy no one ever heard of before. That's got to be humiliating.
Other than that, with Feingold out, and still no hint of a Gore appearance, the netroots appears to be taking a close look at Obama, Edwards and Clark. But keep in mind, winning the "blogosphere primary" gets these guys nothing. It's all about activating, energizing, and mobilizing hardcore political junkies to evangelize and work their campaigns.
Let's say, conservatively, that 5 million people read liberal blogs. You get 10 percent of those, you're looking at 500,000 activists working on your behalf. What campaign wouldn't kill for that sort of interest?
So ultimately, while we may have a lot of fun seeing who "wins" the netroots, even candidates lower down the totem poll will benefit greatly from aggressive outreach to the netroots.
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