Via Daily Kos, I’ve noticed there a couple more states with Dem presidential polls released this week.
A Marist College poll released yesterday shows that Howard Dean and Wesley Clark are excelling in New York, while Joe Lieberman, who was comfortably in first place in a similar poll last month, is fading fast. (margin of error +/- 5%)
Dean — 18 percent (up from 13 percent in September)
Lieberman — 16 percent (down from 23 percent in September)
Clark — 14 percent (up from 6 percent in September)
Gephardt — 10 percent (up from 8 percent in September)
Kerry — 8 percent (down from 13 percent in September)
and everyone else at 5 percent or lower
In addition, the Shapiro Research Group, a Democratic polling company, released a statewide poll from Georgia. (margin of error +/- 6%)
Clark — 12 percent
Lieberman — 11 percent
Gephardt — 10 percent
Dean — 9 percent
Sharpton — 7 percent
Braun — 6 percent
and everyone else at 5 percent or lower
Just as an aside, I’ve taken a look at all of the statewide polls from the last 10 days. If I’m counting right, there have been nine — New Hampshire, Iowa, Arizona, Michigan, Alabama, Pennsylvania, California, New York, and Georgia — which, as luck would have it, offers a pretty good geographic balance.
Oddly enough, no candidate appears in the top three of all nine of these states. Wesley Clark comes the closest, appearing in the top three in all of the state polls except Iowa (which his campaign has decided to skip), while Dean is the next closest, appearing in the top three in six of the nine states’ polls.