Texas Democratic Convention Straw Poll

While I was at the Democratic Convention in Fort Worth this last weekend, I noticed that one of the booths was conducting a very informal straw poll on current popularity of possible candidates for president in 2008. This was far from a scientific poll as the "voters" had to purchase a political button for a dollar or two [poll tax?]. While the poll is not scientific, I found it interesting and amusing. This is how it finished up:

Al Gore..........17.1%

John Edwards..........16.7%

Hillary Clinton..........16.3%

Wesley Clark..........11.3%

Russ Feingold..........10.7%

Barack Obama..........7.4%

Mark Warner..........6.1%

Joe Biden..........4.0%

Howard Dean [tie]..........2.0%

Bill Richardson [tie]..........2.0%

John Kerry..........1.0%

Tom Vilsack..........0.7%

Evan Bayh..........0.6%

Harry Reid..........0.5%

Barbara Boxer..........0.4%

John Murtha..........0.2%

Remember, take this poll with a grain of salt. It was not scientific and there is a long way to go before nominating season. Who knows what will happen or what new names will pop up before then.