Wacky Caucus Poll Numbers

Via Political Wire, American Research Group put out a crazy new poll of likely 2008 Iowa caucus goers.

In the Democratic caucus, Clinton led the poll with 31%, followed by Edwards with 20%, Vilsack with 18%, and Obama with 10%. Interestingly, Vilsack did the best with “no party” respondents who said they were likely to participate in the Democratic caucus, at 38%. Clinton garnered 32% of this group’s support, but no other candidate scored more than 2% of “no party” support. This could be a product of name recognition, but since when are Iowans who consider themselves likely caucus goers unfamiliar with Kerry or Edwards? I never would have though that Clinton could bring a lot of “no party” support to the caucuses.

In the Republican caucus, Guiliani led with 28%, followed by McCain with 26% and Gingrich with 14%. Naturally McCain did well in the “no party” category, although for some reason American Research calls them “independents” in this section…

These numbers look completely different from Research 2000’s poll last week and otherwise left me scratching my head, so here’s one more shout out to Chase’s Wide Open Caucus post.

2 comments December 29th, 2006