Army Times Poll; The pResident only gets 30%

[Ilsa]

Here are the poll results:

If you were going to vote for president right now, which candidate would you support:

Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun 0.24 % (13)
Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.) 40.11 % (2,159)
Gov. Howard Dean 6.97 % (375)
Sen. John Edwards 0.54 % (29)
Rep. Dick Gephardt 2.14 % (115)
Sen. John Kerry 17.56 % (945)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich 0.30 % (16)
Sen. Joe Lieberman 0.74 % (40)
Rev. Al Sharpton 1.41 % (76)
President George W. Bush 30.00 % (1,615)
Total votes: 5383

http://www.armytimes.com/static.php?f=view.php

Here's a link to the poll: http://www.armytimes.com/
Scroll down to the bottom.

[jumptheshadow]

1. Clark wins with 40%?

Internet polls are notoriously unreliable. I wonder if this has any correlation in "real life?"

[kalian]

2. Polls in general are unreliable....

[Military Brat]

4. Army Times polls are reliable

I've been reading the polls of Army Times for a long time. They do fairly well in tracking the attitude of the Army. Notice that Kerry, although lagging behind bush, is in third place.

I wonder (1) how many troops stationed in Iraq participated in the poll, and (2) what the Marine poll would look like.

[La_Serpiente]

3. Clark polls

seem to be really really high on the internet. I don't know how they are doing it, but they are hacking the poll vote or something. One time on CNN, Clark had 120,000 votes and Dean only had like 18,000. That's crazy.

[mw]

5. Uh oh. Bush won't be counting overseas ballots in 2004

He better put Jeb or Katherine Harris on a "No Overseas Military Ballot Left Behind" plan.

[jbfam4]

7. LOL

That was my thought too. You nailed it.

[htuttle]

6. There's a surprise or two in that poll for me

It's not too surprising that Clark does so well, or that Kerry is in second (high-profile military service for both of them).

What's surprising to me is how well Al Sharpton does in this poll! Look at that. Al's put Lieberman, Edwards, Braun and Kucinich in his dust in this one. Wonder if it's more from people who were familiar with him before they went over there, or whether his performance in the debates have somehow made it over there, and that's what it is?

In many ways, Al Sharpton's personal background has more in common with most of the troops than most of the other candidates (except Kucinich, perhaps), but I doubt that has too much of a bearing. People rarely base their vote on that criteria.

Not sure what, if anything, it means. It's not that he does well enough to make him a 'serious' candidate, but what about the serious candidates who did so much more poorly than Al? Are they 'serious' still? Wonder how much money Sharpton is spending compared to Lieberman or Edwards?

(Speaking as a habitual supporter of underdog primary candidates who never make it to the General Election)

[Rowdyboy]

8. 57% support Clark or Kerry over Bush who gets justs 30%

Thats good news no matter how you choose to spin it!

[AnnabelLee]

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