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McCain, Edwards, Obama Lead in Iowa Poll
A poll of likely Iowa voters places former Sen. John Edwards and Sen. Barack Obama in a tie for the top choice of Democrats in the 2008 caucuses. Sen. John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani were the favorite picks of Republicans.
The telephone poll of 600 likely voters who said they vote regularly in state elections had a statistical margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. It was conducted for Des Moines television station KCCI by Maryland-based Research 2000, from Dec. 18 to Dec. 20.
When asked who they would vote for if the 2008 Democratic caucuses were held today, 22 percent of Democrats named John Edwards, the former South Carolina senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate. Sen. Barrack Obama, of Illinois, also was named by 22 percent of Democrats. advertisement
Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack was at 12 percent and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton was at 10 percent.
The poll showed McCain had the support of 27 percent of Republicans, and Guiliani had 26 percent. Republican Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was third with 9 percent.
Story Continues Below Several potential matchups were posed to poll participants, who were asked who they would support if the election for president were held today, but many of the results were within the poll's statistical margin of error.
An Obama-McCain and an Edwards-McCain matchup had both Democrats winning by 42 percent to 39 percent, statistically a tie. In both cases 19 percent report being undecided.
McCain would win a matchup against Clinton 43 percent to 37 percent.
Guiliani led Clinton 39 percent to 35 percent, but that's within the poll's margin of error and with 26 percent reporting they're undecided.
The poll showed Obama ahead of Guiliani by 5 percentage points and Edwards ahead of Guiliani by 4 percentage points.
The poll also shows that former Vice President Al Gore would be competitive against leading Republican contenders.
McCain led Gore by 41 percent to 39 percent, a statistical tie with 20 percent undecided. Guiliani also led Gore, 36 percent to 34 percent with 30 percent undecided.
Gore would beat Romney 34 percent to 28 percent, the poll shows.
Vilsack, who announced his candidacy in early December, would beat McCain 41 percent to 35 percent and Guiliani 42 percent to 35 percent, the poll shows.
© 2006 Associated Press.
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