{"id":13059,"date":"2007-09-29T17:45:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13059.html"},"modified":"2007-09-29T17:45:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T21:45:26","slug":"newsweek-poll-shows-democratic-race-far-from-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/newsweek-poll-shows-democratic-race-far-from-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek poll in Iowa shows Democratic race far from over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, national polls show Hillary Clinton with a significant lead. In New Hampshire, the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2007\/09\/25\/clinton-widens-lead-over-obama-in-new-hampshire\/\">CNN\/WMUR poll<\/a> showed Clinton way out in front with 43% support, followed by Barack Obama with 20%, and John Edwards with 12%. (It&#8217;s worth noting that 55% of poll respondents are still &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/politics\/war_room\/2007\/09\/27\/nh\/index.html\">trying to decide<\/a>&#8221; which presidential candidate to support.)<\/p>\n<p>But what about Iowa, which has consistently been the closest contest? A just-released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21038955\/site\/newsweek\/\"><i>Newsweek<\/i> poll<\/a> is bound to get some attention.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among all Iowa Democratic voters, Clinton draws 31 percent, followed by Obama (25 percent) and Edwards (21 percent). But among likely caucus-goers, Obama enjoys a slim lead, polling 28 percent to best Clinton (24 percent) and Edwards (22 percent). Bill Richardson is the only other Democratic candidate to score in the double digits (10 percent).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, national polls show Hillary Clinton with a significant lead. In New Hampshire, the latest CNN\/WMUR poll showed Clinton way out in front with 43% support, followed by Barack Obama with 20%, and John Edwards with 12%. (It&#8217;s worth noting that 55% of poll respondents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}