December 20, 2006 IOWA POLL: Edwards 22% Obama 22% Vilsack 12% Hillary 10%

[Herman Munster]

She's come a hell of a long way in a year.

http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2006/12/new_2008_iowa_poll.html

John Edwards 22%
Barack Obama 22%
Tom Vilsack 12%
Hillary Clinton 10%

[Lucinda]

1. Thanks for that! She really has! I've been looking through the Iowa 2004

pre-caucus and post caucus information tonight. Polls can be very interesting. :)

[snowbear]

2. If history repeats, sounds like the Des Moines Register's last poll is the one to look at....

- - -

...Or at least - they had it right last time!

I had forgotten that just before the caucus, Kerry, Dean, and Edwards were just about as clumped up as Clinton, Obama, and Edwards.. but they were REALLY close.

Kerry comes back to win dramatic caucuses
(CNN) -- Iowa Democrats upended the Democratic presidential race January 19, giving Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts a strong comeback victory and dealing a fatal blow to Rep. Dick Gephardt's White House run.

North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, whose once listless campaign gained new life in Iowa, came in second place ahead of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, an early favorite in both state and national polls.

Gephardt finished fourth in a state he once said he had to win, and dropped out of the race the day after the caucuses. (Full Iowa results)

For months, the Iowa race seemed to be a showdown between Dean, the national front-runner, and Gephardt, the veteran congressman from neighboring Missouri who won the 1988 Iowa caucuses in his first, and ultimately unsuccessful, bid for his party's presidential nomination.

But days before the caucuses, the race tightened as Iowans took more notice of Kerry and Edwards, bringing suspense, surprise and electricity to the Democratic fight.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/primaries/pages/misc/iowa.recap.html

And to make things more confusing... The article says that days before the election, the top issues became the economy and health care issues..

A medical doctor who balanced a state budget for 12 years didn't meet those requirements?

Just goes to show that ---------------- ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!

What a sad photo this is..

A disappointing fourth place finish in Iowa
prompted Rep. Dick Gephardt to end his
presidential run.

[Tejanocrat]

3. Is it true that Hillary paid off Vilsack's campaign debt once he endorsed her? If so, just add

Vilsack's poll numbers to Hillary's poll numbers ate it's been a three way tie for a year.

http://www.kcci.com/politics/11407584/detail.html?rss=des&psp=news

[Perry Logan]

4. Far out. Did their calculator run out of batteries or what?

[d_b]

5. lol

[JackORoses]

6. this is sad. I bet if you look at a poll from the year before she's not even listed

outta the way, she's a juggernaut!!

[joeybee12]

7. No, no, no...she was always inevitable, always had the lead...

...and only now is losing it...that's the storyline and facts be damned!!!!