(CPOD) Feb. 2, 2004 – Retired general Wesley Clark keeps the lead among Democratic presidential hopefuls in Oklahoma, according to a poll by Survey USA released by KFOR-TV. 31 per cent of respondents would vote for Clark in the state’s primary, a six per cent lead over Massachusetts senator John Kerry.
(CPOD) Feb. 2, 2004 – Retired general Wesley Clark keeps the lead among Democratic presidential hopefuls in Oklahoma, according to a poll by Survey USA released by KFOR-TV. 31 per cent of respondents would vote for Clark in the state’s primary, a six per cent lead over Massachusetts senator John Kerry.
North Carolina senator John Edwards is third with 23 per cent, followed by former Vermont governor Howard Dean with nine per cent. Seven states –Arizona, Delaware, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, North Dakota and South Carolina– will hold votes tomorrow.
Kerry won the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 27, as well as the Iowa caucus held on Jan. 19. Clark –who did not participate in Iowa– finished third in New Hampshire.
Kerry’s website has raised $1.1 million U.S. in the past week. Dean’s campaign fund has dwindled from $41 million U.S. to $5 million U.S. Kerry and Dean are the only candidates who rejected public financing, allowing them to forgo existing spending limits.
George W. Bush won Oklahoma’s eight electoral votes in 2000, with 60 per cent of the vote. No Democrat has carried the state since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
Polling Data
What candidate would you support in Oklahoma’s Democratic presidential primary?
Wesley Clark | 31% |
John Kerry | 25% |
John Edwards | 23% |
Howard Dean | 9% |
Other | 9% |
Undecided | 3% |
Source: Survey USA / KFOR-TV
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 606 certain Oklahoma primary voters, conducted from Jan. 29 to Jan. 31, 2004. Margin of error is 3.9 per cent.
