Poll shows Dean is No. 1 with Georgia Democrats

[MGKrebs]

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1203/19dempoll.html

(Zogby poll)
Howard Dean
DECEMBER: 18.8 percent
OCTOBER: 7.4 percent

Dick Gephardt
DECEMBER: 7.5 percent
OCTOBER: 11.5 percent

Someone else
DECEMBER: 6.8 percent
OCTOBER: 1.6 percent

Wesley Clark
DECEMBER: 6.5 percent
OCTOBER: 13.1 percent

Al Sharpton
DECEMBER: 5.6 percent
OCTOBER: 3.3 percent

Joe Lieberman
DECEMBER: 5.5 percent
OCTOBER: 9.0 percent

John Kerry
DECEMBER: 2.7 percent
OCTOBER: 4.9 percent

Carol Moseley Braun
DECEMBER 2.6 percent
OCTOBER 5.4 percent

John Edwards
DECEMBER 1.9 percent
OCTOBER 3.8 percent

Dennis Kucinich
DECEMBER: 0.2 percent
OCTOBER: 0.8 percent

Not sure
DECEMBER: 42.1 percent
OCTOBER 39.1 percent

Now the bad news:

"No matter who is the eventual nominee, the Democrats will face a tough general election campaign in Georgia, where President Bush was a big winner in 2000. A wider sample from the AJC poll, including Republicans and independents as well as Democrats, gave Bush a 59 percent approval rating, up from October's 56.1 percent. And with the capture of Saddam Hussein, 63.9 percent said they approved of the way Bush is handling the war in Iraq."

[onehandle]

1. Georgia is toast for us.

Rove and Ralph Reed have made my state their base of operations in the South.

[yellowcanine]

2. But Zell Miller said that Dean couldn't win

in the South. So shouldn't we listen to him instead of some stupid voters?

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. Dean is the only candidate polling high enough to win any delegates

Only candidates who recieve at least 15% of the vote in a primary get any delegates from that state.

[yellowcanine]

4. John Edwards is behind Al Sharpton in Georgia?

So much for his appeal among Southern voters if this is reflective of voter opinion elsewhere in old Dixie.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. GA has a lot of African American voters

And Edwards is struggling to keep the lead in SC, which is right next door to his home state.

[deutsey]

6. Man, I need a vacation...

I thought the headline said:

Poll shows Dean is No. 1 with Gangsta Democrats

:hangover:

[jonnyblitz]

14. LOL

:hi:

[gttim]

7. Cool!

My bumpersticker is working! Why didn't the AJC give me some credit?

[JThrash]

8. Zogby shoots out the most unreliable pools ever

I would take these results with a grain of salt.

[MGKrebs]

9. I take all polls with a grain of salt.

But the TRENDS are what are worth keeping an eye on.

[CMT]

11. how come they were the most accurate in 2000?

only major pollster who detected the last minute swing to Gore.

[Chomskyite]

17. Zogby was the only pollster to call the 00 election for Gore

Check it and see.

[David__77]

10. I'm waiting for the dropping out to begin.

I wonder if the Washington establishment will be forcing someone of the other out in order to endorse someone other than Dean. It's interesting, because amid all the rancor, it's clear that Dean's base will trump a divided opposition. Let them be divided, as far as I'm concerned...

[maxsolomon]

12. georgia HAS democrats?

doesn't look like it from over here on the west coast.

[AndyTiedye]

16. Do you think Saxby Chambliss really won in 2002?

>Georgia HAS democrats?

Sure, but what will the Diebold Republican Electing Machinez do with their votes?

[RebelOne]

22. Gerogia Democrat here.

[0007]

13. Indeed this isn't saying much, IMHO!

[MGKrebs]

15. Well from my perspective,

as a Dean supporter and volunteer, it means we are doing soomething right. We are reaching the people, we are getting the message/name out there, and the message is connecting.

As you can see from the poll, even 2 months ago the support was far less, and what we were up against was that almost nobody had even heard of Dean.

Maybe the numbers aren't great overall (lot's of undecided), but RELATIVE to other candidates, we are apparently succeeding. I mean, how else does one measure such things?

[Chomskyite]

18. If you'd told me two years ago

. . . a social liberal but fiscally conservative former governor from Vermont would be leading all other Democrats in Georgia and in South Carolina, I'd have asked how much you'd been drinking and whether or not I could have some too.

[dolstein]

19. Headline: Poll Shows only 1 in 5 Georgia Dems back Dean

Gee, somehow this doesn't sound quite as impressive as your headline, but it's no less accurate.

[rman]

20. "Dean more then twice as popular as the next candidate"

is also quite accurate.

[RebelOne]

21. Yep, poll's right. I'm a Georgia Democrat.

And a lot of my friends here are Dean supporters.

[Scoopie]

24. Good God

And you call the South biased.
Here you people sit making fun of the South. I'm guessing THAT'S why Dean will lose the election.
I'm glad I strolled on over here.
No - Dean doesn't lead there, despite Zogby's "phenominal" poll of a whopping 277 people in Georgia.
Shit, I called that many people two weeks ago in two nights to invite them to a Wesley Clark rally.
La-ti-da.
And, it's the GENERAL ELECTION, not the primary. Of COURSE, Democrats in the primaries are gonna vote for an... OMG!!!... Democrat.
No. The point is that Dean isn't popular except among some elitist few. And those are the few that bother to register as Democrats in the South, considering that all our states have open primaries and it's not No. 1 on the hit list to register with a Party.
In any case, I should say that I guess Dean is the supposed leader of the registered Democrats, because I really don't know. I've only met one real-live Dean supporter in person down here and, surprisingly, he's originally from New Jersey. (I like him anyway. :) )

[Scoopie]

26. How come I don't get polled?

Seriously.
Is it because...
Oh. I know. It's because I vote a split ticket - LIKE MOST PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH.
Or maybe... just maybe.. yep... that's it! I voted for McCain in the primaries! And Gore in the General! YES! More than most of you guys, I actually have voted AGAINST BUSH twice already!
Gotta love them open primaries!

[Deesh]

23. Ralph Reed

My hope is that Ralph Reed will be eviscerated by a large sub-Saharan animal soon.

[KittyWampus]

25. What Could Be More Meaningless Than A Poll Of 277 People?

[MGKrebs]

27. A: A poll of 12 people.

Actually, assuming the October poll was the same number of people, we can say that in October they found 19 Dean supporters, and in December they found 50 Dean supporters. I think that could indicate a TREND. Worth noting.