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Survey of 326 Democrats Likely Voters November 8, 2005
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November 11, 2005--Senator Hillary Clinton of New York leads the pack in the race for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination. With 43% of the vote, the frontrunner has more support than the next three contenders combined. Former Vice President Al Gore comes in second at the moment with 14% of the vote. Last year's Vice-Presidential nominee John Edwards attracts 13% of the vote while Massachusetts Senator John Kerry earns 10%. However, if Clinton and Gore were to sit out the race, Kerry moves to the top with 38% of the vote. John Edwards attracts 28% in this scenario while three other candidates register above the 5% level--Senator Joe Biden at 6%, General Wesley Clark at 6%, and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson at 5%. Also included in the survey were Senators Evan Bayh and Russ Feingold and Governors tom Vilsack and Mark Warner. None of these candidates attract 5% of the vote at this time. [More Below]
Fifty-three percent (53%) of Clinton's voters would opt for Senator John Kerry if the former First Lady is not in the running. Twenty-six percent (26%) of her voters prefer former Senator John Edwards as their second choice. CrossTabs are available for Premium Members. A separate survey found that most voters think it is likely that Hillary Clinton will be the Democrats' nominee in 2008. Demographic details are available for Premium Members. Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. Rasmussen Reports was the nation's most accurate polling firm during the Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome. During Election 2004, RasmussenReports.com was also the top-ranked public opinion research site on the web. We had twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor and nearly as many as all competitors combined. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.
The telephone survey of 326 Democrats Likely to Vote was conducted by Rasmussen Reports November 8, 2005. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 6 percentage points at the midpoint with a 95% level of confidence (see Methodology). |
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