Gore Wins Alternet's Straw Poll; Hillary Trails Badly

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Readers Speak: Gore, Chomsky and Ivins Are Winners
By Don Hazen, AlterNet
Posted on July 13, 2006, Printed on July 13, 2006

Gore wins big in AlterNet's presidential preference straw poll while Hillary Clinton trails badly; Noam Chomsky steals Most Valuable Progressive while Molly Ivins runs away with Best Opinion Writer.

http://www.alternet.org/story/38849/
The results are in. More than 13,000 readers cast their straw vote in AlterNet's reader survey and poll conducted during the last two weeks of June. Readers came out in droves to state their preference for Al Gore as Democratic Presidential candidate for 2008.

Gore, whose popularity appears to be growing with the success of his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, received 35 percent of the vote, followed by Senator Russ Feingold at 20 percent and former vice presidential candidate John Edwards at 11 percent. Wesley Clark received 4 percent, and John Kerry and Mark Warner 2 percent.

The big surprise in the survey is that Senator Hillary Clinton, whom many in the corporate media suggest is the front runner for the nomination, only received 7 percent of the vote. This is particularly surprising since 53 percent of the survey respondents were women. One possible reason for Senator Clinton's poor showing and Gore's popularity is that 24 percent of our survey participants chose the war in Iraq as their top priority issue. Hillary Clinton has not shown any leadership on the issue or been among those pushing for an end to the bloodshed.

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