Ohio Democratic Straw Poll

[illinoisprogressive]

I thought this was fun. Like the regular polls right now, straw polls are more for time killers on cable news shows and little else.
It is just too early to get a good idea of what is really going on. Most have not even thought about or paid attention to the primaries yet.
but, it was for fun and so, I thought I'd post it.


CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Sen. Barack Obama cruised to a solid victory in the first presidential straw poll sponsored by a Democratic organization in Ohio. He received 36% of the vote in the non-bonding beauty contest last night sponsored by the Hamilton County Democratic Party. The ballots were counted by optical-scan voting machines operated by volunteers from the county's board of election. Sen. Hillary Clinton finished second with 24% and John Edwards was third with 22%.

Critics could dismiss the straw poll as unscientific, and they would be correct to a point. But the top tier of the Democratic field finished as the top tier, just as they do in the national polls except for one significant difference -- Clinton was not on top.

There were 285 ballots cast in a theater in a city neighborhood where the county Democratic organization held a rally for its City Council candidates. All the party's announced 2008 candidates were listed on the ballot. Al Gore, the party's 2000 nominee, was not included in the straw poll because he says he in not running, said Party Chair Tim Burke.

Here are the numbers and percentage for each candidate:

1. Barack Obama, D-Ill. -- 102 votes, 36%.

2. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. -- 69 votes, 24%.

3. John Edwards, D-N.C. -- 64 votes, 22.4%.

4. Dennis Kucinich, D-OH. -- 17 votes, 6%.

5. Bill Richardson, D-N.M. -- 16 votes, 6%.

6. Joe Biden, D-DEL. -- 13 votes, 5%.

7. Chris Dodd, D-Conn. -- 4 votes, 2%.

8. Mike Gravel, D-Alaska -- 0.


http://thebellwetherdaily.blogspot.com/2007/09/ohio-dem-straw-poll-results-obama-tops.html

[Colobo]

1. LOL @ Gravel!

[Kolesar]

2. The "candidate" who shows up at debates and does not do much else...eom

[illinoisprogressive]

3. are you refering to Edwards? or clinton???

[Kolesar]

4. Gravel. Why would you ask that?

[MonkeyFunk]

7. Because he's

constitutionally incapable of simply supporting his candidate. He must tear down the others.

[Kolesar]

8. I have not seen any good posts by that guy

Only divisive and poorly written concepts.

[Hieronymus]

5. Thom Hartmann did a call in poll last week. Edwards won by a huge margin.

[Colobo]

6. It's still early.