A Hoy newspaper-Hamilton Staff poll showed that Vice President Milagros Ortíz Bosch (PRD), former Vice President Jacinto Peynado (PRSC) and former Vice President Jaime David Fernández Mirabal (PLD) would be the most voted presidential candidate choices in the 2004 election. Interestingly, Jaime David Fernández Mirabal, whom the PLD party discarded in favor of then Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medina in the 2000 run, leads former President Leonel Fernández by 3% in the poll carried out 11-15 November. Danilo Medina received 15%, Felix Jiménez, former Minister of Tourism, 7%. Among PLD voters, Leonel Fernández received 56% support, versus 29% of the former vice president. Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch received 36% of the preference of voters, ranking above Hatuey de Camps and Rafael Suberví Bonilla (17%), and Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero and Ramón Alburquerque (7%). Among PRD voters, Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch has the most support (42%) among voters of her own party. In the PRSC, Jacinto Peynado had 44% of preference of voters, followed by another former Vice President Carlos Morales Troncoso (27%) and Federico Antún (14%).
