As the Democratic National Committee opens its annual meeting, a new poll of DNC members suggests party leaders want to see some serious changes and believe former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean will do an excellent job as party chairman.
The CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Thursday indicates the members who chose to reply to the survey also overwhelmingly believe the party should draw clear distinctions between itself and the GOP and should work to defeat the Republican agenda over the Bush administration's final four years.
Surveyors questioned 223 of the DNC's 447 members or their spokespeople by phone between January 27 and February 8. Answers are representative of the views of the members who chose to take part in the poll. The DNC, comprising delegations from the states and other Democratic institutions, began its annual meeting Thursday and is set to select Dean -- the six other candidates have dropped out -- as its chairman, replacing Terry McAuliffe.
Another survey conducted by CNN/USA Today/Gallup from January 14 through January 16, this time a poll of rank-and-file Democrats nationwide, indicated that Democrats are more skeptical about their party's prospects in the 2008 presidential race than are members of the DNC leadership.
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