Results of the August Straw Poll

Here are the results with 92 votes being tallied.

August Straw Poll: Who do you support for the Democratic Nomination for President in 08? April Results are in parenthesis.

1. Russ Feingold 29% (35%)
2. John Edwards 22% (12%)
3. Al Gore 12% (14%)
4. Tom Vilsack 9% (5%)
4. Wesley Clark 9% (-)
6. Mark Warner 5% (19%)
7. Hillary Clinton 4% (1%)
8. John Kerry 3% (2%)
9. Bill Richardson 3% (6%)
10. Joe Biden 2% (2%)
11. Evan Bayh 1% (4%)
12. Tom Daschle 0% (-)

The big winner is John Edwards, who jumped up 10% points. The biggest loser was Mark Warner who dropped 14%. Wesley Clark and Tom Daschle weren't included in April's poll. Clark did well getting 9% of the vote. Daschle didn't get any votes, so he might get replaced with Chris Dodd the next time around.

Looking at the big picture, the candidates with the most votes are the non-DLC candidates. 4 of the top 5 are non-DLC candidates. The highest vote getting DLC candidate is Vilsack.

How do the results compare to the number of visits each candidate has made to Iowa? Here is a look at how many trips the candidates have made to Iowa since Nov. 2004. 3 candidates have spent more than 10 days in Iowa. Edwards has been here the most and he got 2nd in the poll. Bayh has spent the 2nd most days in Iowa with 7 trips and spending 16 days in the state. With just 1%, the readers of this blog must not be very impressed with what they see. Biden has spent 12 days in Iowa, but most of them have been in the past couples weeks.

I will have another straw poll up in November following the election.