The latest Zogby Three-Day for South Carolina, covering Wednesday through Friday show this:
Edwards - 26%
Kerry - 22%
Dean - 9 %
Clark - 8%
Sharpton - 6%
Lieberman - 4%
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Undecided- 22%
The Margin of Error, between which the top two exist, is 4.1-percent. Yesterday’s results — Tuesday through Thursday — showed Edwards leading 25-percent to 24-percent, so Edward picked up to widen the margin within the margin.
Sharpton has been expected to contend, but the bulk of his vote, I am told, is to come from people who cannot afford phone service thus cannot take part in a telephone survey.
If this primary is as close as Zogby’s figures presently indicate, and if Kerry opens a clock cleaning shop in Missouri and does well elsewhere, Edwards comes away from this in worse shape than at any other time since Iowa. A healthy showing by Kerry in South Carolina and Oklahoma shows that Kerry can compete in a field of Democrats in the South despite expressing his sentiment that the South does not mean squat to him.
This race has yet to show me more than a footnote to a footnote in an unabridged version.
