John Edwards almost tied for lead in NV - Obama 32, Clinton 30, Edwards 27 (MOE 4.5%)

[jsamuel]

Barack Obama: 32 percent
Hillary Clinton: 30 percent
John Edwards: 27 percent

MOE 4.5%

http://www.rgj.com/blogs/inside-nevada-politics/2008/01/new-poll-democratic-race-in-nevada-dead.html

[helderheid]

1. I have a closing on the 16th - some of my paycheck goes to JE!

[dragonkeep]

21. Do it on the 18th to make the $7 million dollars for Edwards

in one day!

[dragonkeep]

22. Thank you but should be posted under the author of this thread!

I love hearing that news.

[helderheid]

71. will do!

[Colobo]

2. GOBAMA! GOBAMA! GOBAMA!

[Dawgs]

3. Wow!! Good news for Obama and Edwards.

Obama was always down in Nevada. Edwards was never this close.

[antiimperialist]

4. I love polls. They accurately predict who will win elections. Gobama! n/t

[Adelante]

5. Good for Edwards

That's impressive :thumbsup:

[skipos]

6. Wow! Last I looked Hillary & her triangulating wind sock were leading by 30% or something

Not that polls mean all that much, obviously.

[cali]

7. Great news. I'll be thrilled if Obama wins and JE comes in 2nd

And I'll be fine with it if JE comes in first and Obama comes in second. I'd love to see Clinton come in third- though heaven help us if she does.

[Colobo]

8. She deserves to lose, and badly.

[SaveElmer]

10. Obama is running a disgusting campaign...

And should he win the nod it is unlikely I will vote for him...

[Colobo]

11. LOL! So Obama is the one doing the nasty stuff?

I bet you consider the Bob Johnson thing nice and dandy, right?

[SaveElmer]

Purposely distorting Hillary's MLK coments...

Among other things. I read the memo coming from Obama slime headquarters...

Not bad enough he is pandering to anti-gay Democrats, now he is implying the Clinton's are racists in order to pry away the AA vote...

Politics of Hope indeed...

If he is the nominee I certainly hope there is a viable third party option...otherwise it is very likely I will be sitting this one out...

[Pirate Smile]

18. Wrong. It is the Clinton camp who is running a disgusting campaign.

[SaveElmer]

19. I guess Donnie McClurkin wasn't an isolated incident...

In Obama's campaign to divide and conquer...

[Hippo_Tron]

29. So you will allow a Republican to win over Obama?

I'm not a fan of Clinton by any means but I won't even think twice about voting for her in a General Election.

[SaveElmer]

34. No...

If my state is clearly going Republican (which it probably will) I will sit out or support a viable third party candidate (If Edwards or probably Obama are the nominee)...

If it appears close, and after vomiting several times, I would probably pull the lever for them to keep the Republicans from taking the state...

But frankly, though my state is trending purple...there is little chance that the Democrat will win here...

[loveangelc]

66. It is clear that Hillary brought up MLK in order to inject race into this and have Obama respond

and turn this into a racial battle. This is the most stupid thing ever, and I will be happy when the SC primary is over and we can move on hopefully. The Clinton's will stop at nothing to win, even make this about race.

[SaveElmer]

70. Not clear at all...in fact it is the Obama slime machine...

In the tradition of their McClurkin pander to ant-gay Democrats that is planting the notion Hillary is racist in order to pull away AA voters from her in SC...

Disgusting...

He has lost my vote for good....

[loveangelc]

72. Obama has never even addressed the issue. All I've seen on TV is Bill calling into radio stations

and Hillary supporters talking about this issue over and over keeping it alive.

[Renew Deal]

33. You'll be replaced by all those independents that Hillary can't win.

No loss.

[kenfrequed]

85. Uhm

"Mr Kettle...Ms Pot... I assume the two of you have met sometime before"

[Kittycat]

9. I agree! Gobama!

[origin1286]

13. It's great

Especially knowing that it would be 59%+ for Obama if Edwards dropped.

Clinton better hope he stays in through Super tuesday.

[redqueen]

63. Don't assume all Edwards support would go to Obama.

That's just not the case at all.

[krabigirl]

73. I wouldn't support Obama if Edwards dropped. Nice try, though. :)

[Darth_Kitten]

12. with the MOE, it's a three way tie..........

Wow, go Edwards! :bounce:

[Pirate Smile]

14. Very interesting but, of course, nobody has any idea who will show up

since this is the first caucus in Nevada.

[Renew Deal]

32. It's not the first caucus.

It's the first time they're an early state.

[Pirate Smile]

43. Ok - do we have any data on how many and who usually shows up

in the Nevada caucuses? I haven't seen anything.

[Renew Deal]

53. The only thing I've ever seen is the 2004 numbers.

But they list delegates, not turnout.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/primaries/pages/states/NV/index.html

There's a lot of speculation about turnout.

[harun]

15. Go Obama and Edwards !!! (n/t)

[Yael]

16. Wow -- excellent!!

[balantz]

17. Time for J.E. to win his first one.

:kick:

[MadBadger]

20. Can anybody say Iowa?

[Catchawave]

23. Very encouraging !

Thanks for the uplifting news. Ya think the MSM notices....LOL.

[Renew Deal]

24. That's a surprisingly good number for Edwards.

And a great one for Obama too.

It would be better if Edwards numbers were lower so he could pick up his support.

[Kermit77]

27. The caucus lawsuit is backfiring on Hillary

I think the Nevada people don't like it when the Clintons try to suppress the vote.

[Renew Deal]

30. And it will probably galvanize the culinary union.

Which is even worse for Hillary.

[bigdarryl]

25. another BULLSHIT poll the election is five days away a life time in politics

[depakid]

44. The bigger problem is that it's a caucus

and the results won't reflect what's reported in a general telephone survey.

For starters....

[redqueen]

62. Huh?

So are all the national polls also "BULLSHIT polls" in your eyes, since the GE is months away?

:wtf:

[balantz]

26. If Edwards nails the debate, as I expect he will,

he stands a chance to rocket these numbers.

[antiimperialist]

28. After losing a double-digit poll lead in NH, Obama fans are happy with a 2% one lol n/t

[Renew Deal]

31. The last NV poll had him losing by 20.

So this is good news for Obama.

[cali]

36. no. we're happy to see him catching up with

your candidate when he was so far in back of her. Or to put it another way; it's nice to see her losing so much ground.

[antiimperialist]

41. How did you know he caught up? n/t

[AzDar]

35. This warms the cockles of my cold, cynical heart!

Go, Johnny, GO!!!!

[balantz]

37. It makes my cold, cynical heart cockles all warm too!

[Rydz777]

38. With that margin of error, there's virtually no difference, but the

real wild card is the fact that these are caucuses. It will depend on who has the muscle.

[Triana]

39. GO Johnny GO!! Sending $$ on Friday! (n/t)

[mnhtnbb]

40. That looks like anybody's race, to me.

[redqueen]

42. An un-biased thread on this poll... thank you jsamuel!

Hah... so transparent and funny, that other one.

Desperate times calling for desperate measures, perhaps?


I wonder if the media has mentioned John's strong surge in support... :rofl: Yeah, right!

[Tropics_Dude83]

45. How the hell????

How on earth do I get accused of being some type of biased Jerk. The numbers I SAW HAD OBAMA 32/CLINTON 30. EDWARDS WAS NOT LISTED. If they had posted Edwards too, I would have!1

Geez. You are vicious and I am personally offended.

[redqueen]

46. Post a link to your source which edits out Edwards, then.

I am vicious? How am I vicious? Calling your OP biased is "vicious" in your world?

[Tropics_Dude83]

48. Top left hand corner

Top left hand corner: http://www.realclearpolitics.com. Just the two frontrunners listed.

[redqueen]

50. I saw the link to the main page of some site... not to poll results.

Why would you share a crap headline like that? How can you not be aware of how monumentally asinine it is to have nearly a three-way tie and just leave the last one out? (Please note for preventive purposes: I am not calling YOU asinine I am calling the "logic" of only reporting the top two contenders in a near three-way tie.) How could you not notice that humongous, glaring error?

[balantz]

49. Your reference was misleading, an understandable deletion on your part.

[redqueen]

51. He didn't delete anyone... he just repeated the media's bias for them. (nt)

[balantz]

54. The media is being very convincing to many people that this is a two person race.

I pray John proves the media WRONG!

[Yael]

77. Next time, don't fall for the media spin. Follow the links to the results page.

[spooky3]

47. wow, that is surprisingly good - I thought other polls showed

him entirely out of the running, which was disappointing since he stands up for the things needed by so many of the people in Nevada and everywhere else.

[MadBadger]

52. We havent seen polls in a month.

[spooky3]

56. good point

[Tropics_Dude83]

55. Thanks

Glad this got cleared up. And TRUST me, if it had shown 32-30-27, I would have posted it that way. Also, most of the time, RCP just shows the results and if you click on a link, you just get taken to their poll charts, so I didn't bother checking. A 3 way tie is huge news.

[asdjrocky]

57. Great news Sam!

I'll believe it when I see it, with the recent polls, who knows?

I'll be leaving for Nevada to do what I can in the next couple of days. Everyone, if you can't send money, make calls, if you can't make calls, write letters, if you can't write letters, write letters on line. Everyone can do something. And they can do it today.

[Yael]

78. You remain my tireless hero, Rocky

Safe travels! :hi:

[onehandle]

58. KICK for John Edwards! nt

[OzarkDem]

59. Not surprising, great news!

[jackson_dem]

60. Great! An Edwards upset special in Nevada would be huge heading into Super Tuesday

[Andy823]

61. That's great news

Edwards is still in this race, and even though all the "wars" going on with Hillary and Obama have taken the issues off the table with them, Edwards is till talking about them, and that helps.

[Bonobo]

64. He has no chance! He has no chance! He has no chance He has no chance!

(Go John!!! Fuckin' A!!!!!)

[99th_Monkey]

65. Hey, that's GREAT news!! Go Johnny Go!!!! Those NV unions are kicking ass for JE. nt

[Ninga]

67. I hope more people than ever tune into tomorrow's debate. Edwards must be above the fray and

solid on the issues.

Oh Johnny our fingers and our legs and our toes and arms are all crossed for you !!! :bounce:

:hi:


:patriot:


:bounce:

[indigoblue]

68. KICKS for John and Elizabeth!

He is gathering momentum every day! :bounce:

[More Than A Feeling]

69. If he wins, it'll finally humble the media who have written him off completely

They already started to learn some humility about polling in New Hampshire, now they need a slightly different lesson about manipulating the campaign with coverage, to further their moral development.

[Yael]

79. And to send a message to our own party about promoting catfighting

within the ranks.

[liberalla]

84. They DO need a lesson, don't they?

Ah, the media.... as burythehatchet said,

"What a victory for the people it would be if he (Edwards) transcended the media and rendered them as irrelevant as they ought to be."

Victory for the people. Transcend the media. Render them irrelevant.

That's the ticket!
I approve that message!

[onehandle]

74. kick! nt

[pamela]

75. Excellent news!

:bounce:

[laureloak]

76. And he doesn't get mentioned on Hardball although Tweety

talked about all 100 Republican candidates. Not a word about Edwards, though.

[Nutmegger]

80. But JEDNE

The M$M told me so.

(R&K!)

[saltpoint]

81. There must be some mistake. I don't believe anyone named John Edwards

is running for president.

Nothing about anyone by that name on the cable news stations or any of the network news shows. My local paper talks about a Senator Obama and a Senator Clinton, but they're the only Democrats in the race, aren't they?

The woman down the street says she thinks John Edwards must be that psychic. But why would a psychic run for president?

So for those poll numbers to be any good, the Edwards numbers would have to represent the support of an actual person, and since nobody by that name is running for president this time, I have to question the findings of that survey.

_______

Go, Johnny, go!

[Infinite Hope]

82. Keep this kicked through Nevada, even if the original author has to self-kick it! n/t

[femmocrat]

83. Kick. Great news!