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January 14, 2005Dean Leads, Frost Second in DNC PollBy Byron LaMastersThe Hotline polled all of the DNC members, and 187 (42%) responded. Dean leads with 31% to 16% for Frost (everyone else in the low single digits with 40% undecided) for first choice. When first and second choices are combined, Dean goes up to 40% and Frost emerges with 27%. Fowler comes in at 11% with Webb and Rosenberg at 8% and Roemer at 6%. What should we make of all this? Roemer has no traction. Roemer polls behind most everyone. Duh... because Roemer is a DINO on key issues that define the Democratic Party. Everyone except the D.C. leadership gets that. Time for them to wake up... I think that some people will be surprised with Frost's strong showing, but I'm not. Frost has near unanimous support of the Texas delegation, and has contacts in most every state from his days of running the DCCC. Right now, Frost appears best positioned to consolidate the vote of those looking for someone other than Howard Dean. The endorsement of former DNC Chair Bob Strauss certainly helps as well. Howard Dean is in a strong position, but after Tim Roemer, Dean is the most polarizing candidate in the field (the poll for last choice for DNC had Roemer at 16% and Dean at 11%). Both Dean and Roemer have the largest percentage drop in support from first choice to second choice. I can easily imagine a scenario where Dean leads the first round or two of balloting, but ultimately loses as the field shrinks. Dean supporters are the loudest, but I think that many DNC members (40% of those polled, and probably an even higher percentage of those who did not respond to the Hotline survey) are holding their cards until someone else emerges. As for the others - Fowler, Webb, Rosenberg, etc. One of them may emerge into the top tier. I think Rosenberg is best positioned to be a compromise candidate (for example, if Dean realizes that he can't win, Rosenberg could be a potential compromise candidate if Dean threw him his support). Everybody seems to like Donnie Fowler, but he's not many people's first choice. Wellington Webb may get African-American support early, but I doubt that his support will go much deeper than that. More importantly is where African-American support will go after Webb drops out. I could see it going to either Dean or Frost. Make what you want of it all. More at MyDD. Update: More details now at MyDD (again) and Political Wire. Posted by Byron LaMasters at January 14, 2005 02:15 PM | TrackBack
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How about Robert Straus's endorsement of Frost. Powerful guy, lots of friends in the party. Posted by: peter at January 14, 2005 03:45 PMYeah, I added that into the post. And you're right on that peter. Posted by: Byron_LaMasters at January 14, 2005 03:57 PMByron, don't underestimate Donnie Fowler. Though these *half* polls show Dean/Frost strength, I think they are all name identification at this point. When the guts of a plan begin to emerge, members are going to like Donnie. He's a smart guy with the right ambition to challenge Karl and his cronies. I still don't have a horse in this race, but as I liked Dean in the primaries, underdog Fowler may give our fractured party the right attitude. Posted by: Cass Callaway at January 15, 2005 10:10 AM
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