Question
Which one of the following Democratic candidates would be your first choice for president? (Among those who don't volunteer a first choice) Toward which candidate would you say you are leaning, or would say you support the most? And who would your second choice be? Do you have a third choice?

Joe Biden. Hillary Clinton. Christopher Dodd. John Edwards. Mike Gravel. Dennis Kucinich. Barack Obama. Bill Richardson.

Obama 32%
Clinton 25%
Edwards 24%
Richardson 6%
Biden 4%
Dodd 2%
Kucinich 1%
Gravel -
Not Sure/Uncommitted 6%

It is also the only recent poll of Iowa caucusgoers showing Obama with a lead larger than the survey's margin of sampling error, which is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

About this Poll
The Iowa Poll, conducted for The Des Moines Register by Selzer & Co. Inc. of Des Moines, is based on telephone interviews with 800 registered Iowa voters who say they definitely or probably will attend the Democratic caucuses and 800 registered voters who say they definitely or probably will attend the Republican caucuses.

Interviewers contacted randomly selected voters registered as Democrat, Republican or no-party from the Iowa secretary of state's voter registration list.

Percentages based on the full sample may have a maximum margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Republishing the copyrighted Iowa Poll without credit to The Des Moines Register is prohibited.

The poll, conducted Dec. 27-30