Democratic presidential contender John Kerry opened a five-point lead on three tightly bunched rivals in Iowa three days before the state's caucuses, according to a Reuters/MSNBC/Zogby poll released on Friday.
In the latest three-day tracking poll, Kerry gained two percentage points to 24 percent, with Howard Dean and Richard Gephardt each dropping two points to 19 percent and John Edwards holding steady at 17 percent.
All four contenders were within the poll's margin of error of 4.5 percent, setting up a tight dash to the finish in Monday's caucuses, the first Democratic nominating contest.
The media must be thrilled. Howard is falling and the horse race is back on.
But how can John "effing" Kerry be leading this race? Must the Democrats always nominate the most condescending candidate. Can anybody really explain his position on the war? He seems like a man who voted for the war with the intention that he would get to vote six more times before we actually went to war. How dare you go to war with the authorization we gave you in Congress he seems to be saying.
Of Course, when Saddam Hussein was captured, Kerry was attacking Howard Dean for being too soft on Iraq. Dean's opposition to the war may be wrong-headed but at least it's consistent.
Lieberman may have made a mistake skipping Iowa. It's so up for grabs that he probably could have done as well as any of them. Instead, he'll compete in New Hampshire where Wesley Clark and Dean and maybe even Kerry after Iowa are ahead of him.
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