Latest Update on Pick Your President

by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

(full disclosure: I work for the Courage Campaign)

Look out!  Hillary Clinton just passed Dennis Kucinich and is now in 3rd place both in California and nationally in the Pick Your President Poll.  Barack Obama is still leading John Edwards.  I know for sure that the Obama supporters and network are encouraging their people to vote in the poll.  What about John Edwards?  He was doing quite well before Obama supporters started working on GOTV.  Who knows maybe Clinton will catch up?

I can't share with you the actual vote margins, but suffice to say they do not match up with your average daily kos poll.  There is plenty of time for anybody to claim first place.  The poll will run until the 18th.  You can follow the results on this page.  The numbers are current as of 2 PM PST.  We will be updating over the weekend.

Here are the current California standings, which are now identical to the national rankings:

1. Sen. Barack Obama

2. Sen. John Edwards

3. Sen. Hillary Clinton

4. Rep. Dennis Kucinich

5. Gov. Bill Richardson *

6. Sen. Mike Gravel

(Richardson is starred because he dropped out, but people voted for him prior to that, so he retains his rankings.)

Here are the Republican rankings.  The vote totals are many magnitudes less on the Republican side than the Democratic side.  RONPAUL (yes all one word) is leading, not a surprise given his online organizing strength.  Being from California really isn't helping Duncan Hunter.

1. Rep. Ron Paul

2. Sen. John McCain

3. Gov. Mike Huckabee

4. Gov. Mitt Romney

5. Mayor Rudy Giuliani

6. Sen. Fred Thompson

7. Rep. Duncan Hunter

As an aside, it has been a real pleasure to work side by side with other state based progressive groups on this poll.  People I met in Chicago at Yearly Kos are now partners on this poll.  It's been a lot of fun and we are happy to see people having fun and firing up their networks.