Zogby Muddles Things Up Again

There's new Iowa polling data out today from the Zogby organization.

I don't know if you've been watching the Dem nomination race as closely as I have (okay, I know you haven't), but Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt have been running neck and neck for the past month or six weeks. Dean spent much of the summer with a comfortable lead in Iowa and later blasted to the front of the pack in New Hampshire, but Gephardt was able to close the gap in Iowa.

The new data puts Dean ahead 26-22%, with a margin of error of +-4.5 points. Yep, that translates to.... they're polling at the same rate. There's great data below the actual numbers as far as union households vs. non-union households, etc.

John Kerry rounds out the top three with 9%, which is pretty much par for the course for Kerry 2004.

Wesley Clark and Joseph Lieberman have both decided to skip Iowa officially, though Clark is running a stealth campaign there anyway, organizing phone banks and letter writing campaigns to (surprise) Dean supporters.

Who needs sports when there's an election looming?