Released: September 04, 2003
Zogby's South Carolina Polling Shows Four Candidates Tied for Lead; Nearly Half of Likely Voters Still Undecided; Sharpton's Candidacy a Dud.
Polling of likely Democratic primary voters in South Carolina indicates that the current presidential hopefuls' campaigns have yet to catch fire. Four candidates are in a virtual tie for the lead, and 46% of respondents are not yet sure which candidate to support.
NC Senator John Edwards, former VT Governor Dr. Howard Dean, MA Senator John Kerry, and CT Senator Joseph Lieberman are deadlocked for first place in the polling, yet none of them has reached double digits except for rounding. All four earned 8-10%.
Edwards............10%
Dean..................9
Kerry.................8
Lieberman..........8
Sharpton............5
Gephardt............4
Graham..............2
Clark..................2
Mosley Braun......2
Kucinich.............2
Someone Else.....6
Not Sure...........46
Pollster John Zogby: "This campaign is not even on the radar screen in South Carolina. While Edwards and Dean have made gains since our last poll, it is more like a bump on a carpet than a surge. No candidate has the edge, and it looks like South Carolina will be shaped by Iowa and New Hampshire. In this kind of vacuum, Clark may seize the moderate mantle. Once a hope for Lieberman, this looks like an early fizzle. Gephardt's support is reduced to half of what it had been. Graham is nowhere. If Kerry's announcement this week helped him, could he actually have been lower than 8% before? And Sharpton is only getting single-digit support among African Americans. This is wide open."
More than half (55%) of the respondents said it is somewhat (29%) or very likely (26%) that President George W. Bush will be re-elected, regardless of how they intend to vote.
More than a third (35%) give President Bush a positive job performance rating, while 64% say it is fair or poor. When asked if they like or dislike Bush as a person, 58% responded positively, compared to 28% who say they dislike him.
One in four (24%) would support a Democratic candidate who favored marriage of gay people, while two-thirds would not.
Dean, who surged to a 38% - 17% lead over his nearest competitor in New Hampshire polling last week, holds the fourth highest "unfamiliar" rating in South Carolina. Retired General Wesley Clark has not yet announced his candidacy, although an announcement is expected soon.
Moreover, when voters - Democrats or otherwise --are asked off the top of their head to name a Democratic candidate running for president, two-thirds are unable to do so. For the first time, Howard Dean is now the most frequently mentioned by voters, with 11%, followed by 7% who say John Kerry, and 5% who mention Joe Lieberman. Among Democratic voters, more mention Dean than any other candidate.
Now, PDiddie, I never said "WMDs were 'just around the corner' in any of those threads.
*deep and heavy sigh* 
No, Gel, I'm not. There is strong evidence Iraq produced, possesed, and concealed prohibited marial and programs. WMD will be found. As for WMD as a primary raison de guerre, I've long maintained that was a PR blunder of enormous proportion, and just one among many PR blunders The Current Administration has managed to drape over itself.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/14/sprj.irq.labs/index.html
Of course, these are dual-use pizza delivery and cropseed treatment units ... perfectly innocent. There's bound to be a perfectly logical reason why they were buried near a munitions loading assembly facility. No doubt coincidence is involved; theses things always turn out to be not what at first they might have seemed. I imagine the half-ton of paperwork buried along with them will clear this silly misunderstanding right up.
http://www.iraqwatch.org/index.html
That link will provide hours of reading all by itself, and offers days worth of link chasing for any who care to inform themselves of the details surrounding Iraq's WMD activity. More can be found at www.fas.org
A perusal of the available documentation leads to but one conclusion.
The other Uniformed Official has been tentatively identified as a major figure in the Regime's Military Scientific community. Veeeeerrrrrrry EEEEEN-teresting.
...A potential mobile bioweapon lab is very much in the news today, some considerable while beyond my 2 February allegation. A similar, in fact nearly identical, situation exists regardfing underground concealment of prohibited facilities. The "German Smallpox Link" story was later in the thread consigned to "The Bodyguard Story" category while occassioning comment critical of the probity bot of some Intel Sources and some media. I remain confident investigatoion opportunities afforded by nuetralization of Iraq's Military and occupation of her territory will produce conclusove evidence of WMD activi9ty on the part of Saddam's regime. "The Chemical Plant" was acknowledged, ackmowledged in facrt with your succeeding citation, as apparently having come to naught. That citation also contains my conjecture that the following day would see the first substantial contact with RG elements. It did. Fortunaty, the risk of WMD deployment was less than had been calculated. The Pentagon neither confirms nor denies the use of Thermobaric Munitions in the Persian Gulf Theater. Nor do they offer any comment regarding the unusual fires following certain major precision weapon strikes. Moving on, a second "site of WMD interest" was much in the news from 4 April and on, and, as I postulated, the next few days did see major related developments. The Mustard and Nerve Agent story may yet see further development, as painstaking investigation continues. The documentation referered to, for instance, has provided avenues of inquiry. And the Mobile BioWeapon Lab story has considerable present currency. Some smoke has dispersed and disappeared, yes. I figure, however, I've been on more often than off in my conjectures, and have often presented to inquiry on this forum tidbits which some time subsequent to my mention of the matter became Big News. On some things, I've clearly "Gotten it wrong", but I've generally been "In Front of Events". I was specifically bragging about having picked up another "Story" before it became "Big News".
In this regard, I've not been proven wrong; I just haven't yet been proven right.
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With thousands dead as a result?