Too close to call

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By Times Des Moines Staff | Saturday, December 08, 2007 |

In an e-mail to supporters, the Iowa campaign for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards circulated internal polling numbers Friday that reflected what many other polls are saying: The race is too close to call less than a month to the caucuses.

The survey of 502 likely caucus-goers showed U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., with the lead at 27 percent, followed by Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina, at 24 percent and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at 22 percent.

The poll had a margin of error of 4.4 percent either way.

“Despite the fact that Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama had spent a combined $6 million on TV commercials in Iowa before Sen. Edwards had spent a dime, the race in Iowa is a dead heat,” Edwards Iowa director Jennifer O’Malley Dillon wrote in the e-mail. “Sen. Edwards’ support is based on both the strength of our organization and the strength of his ideas for changing

America.”