In the most popular DavidMixner.com poll ever, hundreds of readers voted for John Edwards as their candidate for president. Clearly, with the Iowa caucuses less than a month away, our readers’ interest has greatly increased.

The man from North Carolina placed a distinct third in our July poll. This time, he almost received a majority of the record-setting vote. At 47%, he was up an amazing 23 points from our last July poll.

Placing second was Barack Obama, who was 13 points behind Edwards with 33.9% of the vote. For a while this week, the vote swung back and forth between the two. This weekend, Edwards pulled into the lead and expanded it.

Of particular interest, Senator Clinton dropped 22 points since our poll in July to place a distant third. Nearly 87% of our readers wanted someone else besides Senator Clinton. She managed only 13.2% of the vote this time around.

Here are the results:

John Edwards: 47.1%
Barack Obama: 33.9%
Hillary Clinton: 13.2%
Dennis Kucinich: 2.6%
Joe Biden: 1.5%
Mike Gravel: 0.6%
Chris Dodd: 0.2%