Obama On Top

Barack Obama is the candidate most likely to lead the country out of Iraq, according to an online straw poll of members of the liberal activist group MoveOn.org.

Obama won nearly 28 percent of the 42,882 votes cast by MoveOn's 3.2 million members. Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, was second with almost 25 percent. Clinton , who appears to be leading the field in national opinion polls but has been criticized for refusing to call her 2002 vote to authorize the Iraq war a mistake, was fifth with nearly 11 percent, finishing behind both Kucinich, an antiwar candidate who was third with 17 percent, and Richardson, who was fourth with 12 percent.

The survey, which asked which candidate would be best able to lead the United States out of Iraq, was conducted by the group after a MoveOn forum Tuesday night in which seven Democratic candidates answered questions about the war. The answers were aired online and broadcast on the liberal talk-radio network Air America.

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