2008: 8/28-30 straw poll results

Daily Kos Staff

Thursday August 30, 2007 · 8:04 AM PDT

2007/08/30 · 08:04

dkos Reader Poll. 8/28-30. 29,090 respondents (as of 8.30.07 6:58 a.m. PT)

2007 2006 2005 Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan Dec Jul May Mar

Edwards 34 36 40 39 42 38 26 35 28 15 8 7
Obama 29 27 22 24 25 26 25 28 28
H. Clinton 8 9 6 6 3 3 4 4 5 2 2 2
Kucinich 7 4 3 2 2 2 4
Richardson 6 6 5 8 13 8 6 5 4 2 1 2
Other 4 7 9 6 5 9 8 * * 3 6 3
No F'ing Clue 4 5 7 7 5 8 6 * * 3 4 6
Dodd 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Biden 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
Gravel 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0

-- not running --

Bayh - - - - - - - - 1 1 1 1
Clark - - - - - - 14 17 26 17 15 15
Daschle - - - - - - - - - 0
Feingold - - - - - - - - - 38 44 48
Kerry - - - - - - - 1 1 2 1 1
Vilsack - - - - - - 1 0 0 0 0 0
Warner - - - - - - - - - 10 10 11

I was out of commission yesterday after I spilled delicious hot soup on my Macbook Pro, killing it dead. As such, I wasn't able to update these numbers quicker. Right off, the number of respondents is much higher than usual, and there's some question as to whether the poll was "hacked". Looking through the logs, we didn't find any evidence of that. Googling around, I did find quite a bit of efforts by supporters of the various campaigns to send their readers over to vote, to "freep" the poll. And there was a big traffic boost early this week thanks to the Craig and Gonzales news. So the bigger numbers can be explained by those things.

There's not much I can do to prevent freeping beyond limiting voting to just registered users (which I'd rather not do). It is an online poll, after all. So like any online poll, take with the requisite grain of salt.

2008: 8/28-30 straw poll results

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