Clark leads Field Poll in California

[OKNancy]

Poll shows anger at status quo can cut both ways for GOP

The nonpartisan California voters who helped oust Gov. Gray Davis and elect Arnold Schwarzenegger appear to be growing equally disenchanted with the status quo represented by President Bush, according to a Field Poll taken at the height of the recall campaign and released today.

The poll showed Bush running slightly behind the Democrats' newest candidate, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, among all California registered voters - and neck-and-neck with the other four major Democratic presidential candidates.

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Clark jumped from last place among the top five in early September to first place in the newest poll - ahead of, in order, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri.

Still, the largest bloc of Democratic primary voters -- 32 percent -- remains undecided.

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The poll, in the head-to-head match-ups, showed Clark ahead of Bush 45 to 43 percent. Bush leads Dean 46 to 42 percent, leads Lieberman 45 to 41 percent,

leads Kerry 46 to 42 percent and leads Gephardt 45 to 43 percent.

But the president trails each of the candidates among nonpartisan voters -- 18 percentage points behind Clark, 3 points behind Dean, 6 points behind Lieberman and Kerry and 8 points behind Gephardt.

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Even more remarkable is that Clark's leap to the top of the field came without a major, high-profile campaign appearance in California.

Campaign officials say that's about to change -- Clark is scheduled to make campaign stops in Los Angeles on Nov. 1 and in San Francisco on
Nov. 2.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/15/MNGDM2BK1L1.DTL

[Bread and Circus]

1. Key sentence....

and why Clark should be the nominee
for 2004:

"But the president trails each of the candidates among nonpartisan voters -- 18 percentage points behind Clark, 3 points behind Dean, 6 points behind Lieberman and Kerry and 8 points behind Gephardt."

It's called the swing voter.

[Justice]

2. Swing Voters Are Key

I couldn't agree with you more.

[Kahuna]

3. 54 EVs that bush will try to scam. We need Clark to make sure...

it's scamproof. In a close election it will be impossible for dems to win without California. Stop the dumb sh!t people. You either want bush in or out. If you want him out, Clark is the one to do it.