Oklahoma primary, 2004

Army general Wesley Clark finally got the win he needed to stay in the race. Frontrunner John Kerry got a disappointing third place finish. John Edwards got an amazing second place finish. Howard Dean got a disappointing 4%. Edwards second place finish suprised many a poll taken 2 days before the primary had Kerry in second leading Edwards 26% to 29% to Clark 31%. Young voters who had helped Dean in the primaries only 8% voted for him compared with Wesley Clark at 34% and Edwards at 26% and Kerry at 23%. Another disappointment in the Dean camp is women and men voters who had voted for him always only 6% for men and 2% for women voted for Dean compared to Wesley Clark who got men 28% and women 31% compared to Edwards for men 29% and women 31%. Clark's narrow win by 1,216 gave Edwards a win in South Carolina over Kerry. Dean had been leading Wesley Clark 21% to 13% in polls 3 weeks before the primary.

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