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09-03-2004, 06:12 PM
Probably not that significant but Bush leads in this Time Magazine poll by double digits now. I saw an interview with Dick Morris on O'Reilly last night and he stated that he thought Bush would have a double digit lead after the convention. He said he advised Clinton to stay in the White House in 1994 after getting a bounce of some sort but Clinton didn't listen and the Democrats lost congress. He said his advice to Bush would be to stay off the stump. Posing a question to O'Reilly, what would Roosevelt have done in 1944? I saw that Bush was out on the stump today.
Poll: Bush Leads by 11 Points During RNC (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1963&e=1&u=/ap/20040903/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_poll_3&sid=96378798)
Poll: Bush Leads by 11 Points During RNC
33 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) leads Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites), 52 percent to 41 percent, while independent Ralph Nader (news - web sites) got 3 percent in a national poll taken during the Republican National Convention that ended Thursday.
The Time magazine poll of 926 likely voters was taken Aug. 31-Sept 2, during the convention and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Bush had 46 percent, Kerry had 44 percent and Nader 5 percent in a Time poll taken just before the convention.
Veteran pollsters say that polls taken during convention weeks should be viewed with caution because they are conducted at a point when public opinion is focused on only one party and a bounce in the numbers could be short-lived.
However, they also noted that polls taken during conventions can sometimes foreshadow a longer lasting bounce. Much of the poll was taken before President Bush's speech on Thursday night.
Bush leads Kerry in areas like handling terrorism, handling Iraq (news - web sites), and providing strong leadership. Bush and Kerry were about even on handling the economy, an improvement for Bush compared with other recent polls.
Kerry campaign aides questioned the size of the Bush lead and pointed to other national polls taken in recent days that show the race is close.
Bush campaign officials were not immediately available to comment.
Poll: Bush Leads by 11 Points During RNC (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1963&e=1&u=/ap/20040903/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_poll_3&sid=96378798)
Poll: Bush Leads by 11 Points During RNC
33 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) leads Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites), 52 percent to 41 percent, while independent Ralph Nader (news - web sites) got 3 percent in a national poll taken during the Republican National Convention that ended Thursday.
The Time magazine poll of 926 likely voters was taken Aug. 31-Sept 2, during the convention and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Bush had 46 percent, Kerry had 44 percent and Nader 5 percent in a Time poll taken just before the convention.
Veteran pollsters say that polls taken during convention weeks should be viewed with caution because they are conducted at a point when public opinion is focused on only one party and a bounce in the numbers could be short-lived.
However, they also noted that polls taken during conventions can sometimes foreshadow a longer lasting bounce. Much of the poll was taken before President Bush's speech on Thursday night.
Bush leads Kerry in areas like handling terrorism, handling Iraq (news - web sites), and providing strong leadership. Bush and Kerry were about even on handling the economy, an improvement for Bush compared with other recent polls.
Kerry campaign aides questioned the size of the Bush lead and pointed to other national polls taken in recent days that show the race is close.
Bush campaign officials were not immediately available to comment.