Poll: John Kerry Holds Big Lead in New York; Edwards win VP vote

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5095-2004Feb25.html

By MARC HUMBERT
The Associated Press
Wednesday, February 25, 2004; 11:08 AM

ALBANY, N.Y. - Front-runner John Kerry maintains a commanding lead over rival John Edwards among likely voters in New York's Democratic primary next week, according to a statewide poll released Wednesday.

The four-term Massachusetts senator, winner of 18 of 20 primary contests, had 60 percent support to Edwards' 21 percent in the survey by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

"New York looks like a one-candidate race - Kerry," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac Institute.

New York's Al Sharpton was at 9 percent and Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio was at 2 percent in the poll.

Thirty-six percent of the Democrats surveyed said Edwards was their favorite to be the party's vice presidential candidate. No other Democrat cracked double digits on that question - New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was at 4 percent - and 39 percent offered no opinion.

Quinnipiac's telephone poll of 581 likely Democratic primary voters was conducted Wednesday through Monday and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

A statewide poll released last week by Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion found Kerry leading Edwards, 66 percent to 14 percent, among likely Democratic primary voters in New York.

New York's primary is March 2, with 236 delegates at stake.

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1. It's a good thing that these morons polled don't pick the vp

the only reason they think he'd be a good vp is that a whole lot of media whores haven't shut up about the idea, which is strategically retarded.

The 4 percent who think it should be Hillary should be checked for lead paint overexposure.