Topeka ? U.S. Sen. Barack Obama won the Kansas Democratic Party e-mail straw poll, party officials announced Friday.

Obama tallied 692 votes out of 1,904 votes cast for 36.3 percent. The online poll was held this week and ended late Thursday.

Second place went to U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton with 504 votes, or 26.5 percent. Former Sen. John Edwards had 355 votes, or 18.6 percent.

After Edwards came U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, 6.8 percent; U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, 6 percent; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, 4.7 percent; U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, 0.7 percent and former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel, 0.3 percent.

The state Democratic Party’s caucuses are Feb. 5.