Late-Deciding Voters Favor Kerry, Edwards
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Associated Press Writer
January 19, 2004, 8:35 PM EST
Four in 10 of Iowa's Democratic caucus-goers decided in the last week which candidate to support, and they favored John Kerry and John Edwards over the other presidential hopefuls, an Associated Press survey found.
Kerry and Edwards each won support from a third of those who decided in the past week, while Howard Dean got about 15 percent of that group and Dick Gephardt 10 percent, according to the entrance poll conducted for AP and television networks by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International.
Kerry got an especially strong boost from voters who said the most important candidate quality was that he "has the right experience." Among the roughly 15 percent of voters who said that, more than half told pollsters they supported Kerry on Monday night.
Edwards did best among the one in four caucus-goers who said the most important quality was that their candidate "cares about people like me." Dean did best among those whose top quality was that he "takes strong stands on the issues."
About three in 10 caucus-goers selected the economy and jobs as the most important issue in their decision; about as many picked health care. About 15 percent picked the war in Iraq, and about four in 10 of those voters favored Dean.
Gephardt won support from more than half who cited U.S. trade policy as the top issue, but only about 5 percent said that.
Results were from a partial sample of 1,141 Democratic caucus-goers interviewed at 50 randomly selected caucus sites around Iowa and are subject to sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press
Charles Mims
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