ND: Kerry has support in new poll, but plurality is undecided

[Feanorcurufinwe]

It used interviews with 640 Democrats people who said they were likely to take part in Tuesday's caucuses. The survey takers, the Public Affairs Institute at Minnesota State University Moorhead, said the poll has a margin for error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. The interviews were done on the days before and after Tuesday's New Hampshire primary election.

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The newspaper poll said Kerry had support from 31 percent of those surveyed, followed by Wesley Clark, a retired Army general and former NATO commander, who had 15 percent. Forty percent of those surveyed were undecided. None of the other five candidates - Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.; Dean; Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.; Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio; and the Rev. Al Sharpton, a New York City minister and activist - got more than 6 percent support.

North Dakota Democratic caucus rules require that a candidate get at least 15 percent voter support statewide to have a chance at getting support from the state's 22 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

Kerry is planning a campaign stop in Fargo on Sunday, his first campaign appearance in the state. Clark, Dean and Kucinich have previously made campaign visits to North Dakota. Separately, Wayne Sanstead, North Dakota's superintendent of public instruction, formally endorsed Kerry's candidacy on Thursday.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/7830607.htm

[alexwcovington]

1. This is news to me

I was at the Democratic policy meeting January 12, and got to meet a lot of party leaders. They were all wearing Dean buttons.