The likely Iowa caucus participants think Hillary is running the most negative campaign:

[Stop Cornyn]

Yesterday's MSNBC/Mason-Dixon/McClatchy poll of likely Iowa caucus participants asked who they thought was running the most negative campaign, and the results aren't too surprising:

24% - Hillary
10% - Obama
09% - Edwards
04% - Kucinich
02% - Dodd
01% - Biden
00% - Richardson

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. And yet, Obama and HRC are in a statistical dead heat. I'm afraid our Dem

candidate in the general will have to dish it out as well as take it. Might as well see the mighty Clinton machine in the primary show off.

[Stop Cornyn]

3. They're POLLING in a three way tie, but that doesn't mean they'll caucus in a three way tie.

[Fredda Weinberg]

9. I noticed they tied for second choice as well. n/t

[sandnsea]

12. Digging up kindergarten essays?

Looks like we've pulled the curtain away from the Clinton and Bush machines and discovered there was nothing behind either one of them except petty vindictiveness.

[Fredda Weinberg]

14. I'm not fooled so easily. Obama's veracity is fair game and he was

apparently playing coy ... pretending not to have youthful aspirations. Dunno why he exposed himself that way, but yeah - in the general - you think our opposition will refrain from pointing out the gaff?

[zulchzulu]

2. Plants, kindergarden, emails... Iowans see through her phony schtick

She's going to put it all in for Iowa and get a measly third or fourth place. Then the blood will be in the water...

[emilyg]

8. Your "saint" is starting in on Edwards.

[ClarkUSA]

10. Every campaign that does oppo-research but plants and swift boating emails are 100% Clinton

And who said Obama was a saint? You and how many other hypocritical Hillaryworlders?

[emilyg]

13. You'll feel better in the morning. Get it all out. "nite.

[Dawgs]

20. Bullshit. His campaign was asked for oppo research by labor unions.

Obama faxed them facts about Edwards. Do you have a problem with the truth?

BTW, every campaign does it.

[Kucinich4America]

4. Kucinich?? A negative campaign??

:rofl:

[Tejanocrat]

5. Isn't that crazy?!?

[suston96]

6. Gee whiz, here is another poll.......

Go here and see what another poll says:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3817051&mesg_id=3817842

December 10, 2007, 1:53 pm
New NYTimes/CBS Poll: Explain, Don’t Attack

By Dalia Sussman

The latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds voters give the presidential candidates positive marks on at least one score at this stage in their campaigns: They credit them with spending more time explaining what they would do as president rather than attacking their opponents.

Still, while no candidate tested in the poll was perceived as attacking more than explaining, some candidates were given more credit than others.

Hillary Clinton was viewed as running the most positive campaign of the leading Democratic candidates. About seven in 10 Democratic primary voters said she has spent more time explaining, four times the number who said she has spent more time attacking.

Six in 10 Democrats said Barack Obama has been explaining, compared with 25 percent who said he has been attacking. Fewer, 45 percent, said John Edwards has spent more time explaining his positions, while 29 percent said he has spent more time being negative.

[Stop Cornyn]

7. The NYT poll is a national poll, but this is an Iowa poll.

[ClarkUSA]

11. That's a national poll, not an Iowa poll.

Apples and oranges.

[MonkeyFunk]

15. so only 24% think that?

so you can't really say "the likely Iowa Caucus participants think Hillary is running the most negative campaign".

You can say she's leading, but since 76% don't think she's running the most negative campaign, your headline is misleading.

[Stop Cornyn]

16. No, it's actually more like 48% because 50% were undecided, of the half who were decided, 24% said

Hillary is running the most negative campaign.

The simplest way to look at is that about half of those who have an opinion think Hillary is running the most negative campaign.

[MonkeyFunk]

17. Yes

that's not only the simplest way, but the factually correct way to phrase it, unlike the headline of this thread.

[MethuenProgressive]

18. Did they poll the Illinois college students before they went home for winter break?

They're "likely Iowa caucus participants," even though they're "not from Iowa" :eyes:

[Czolgosz]

19. I agree generally, but Hillary's flyer pointing out that Obama doesn't have a universal health care

plan is fair game.