TIMECNN POLL: Most Registered Voters Would Choose Bush

CNN ^ | Fri Nov 21 2003 | CNN/TIME

[ruffisthudpucker]

TIMECNN POLL: Most Registered Voters Would Choose Bush Fri Nov 21 2003 19:44:24 ET

New York – If the 2004 Presidential election was held today, registered voters surveyed for TIME/CNN would choose President George W. Bush over any of the declared Democratic candidates.

In a direct run against Bush, Gen. Wesley Clark fares the best among registered voters (Clark 42%, Bush 49%), closely followed by Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (Kerry 41%, Bush 49%).

Bush would beat any of three other Democrats, 52 percent to 39 percent, in a direct match: Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, or Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. Against Bush, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards would lose, 38 percent to 52 percent.

When registered Democrats are asked which Democratic presidential nominee they would vote for, Dean edges out Clark 14 percent to 12 percent, followed Lieberman (11%), Kerry (9%), Gephardt (6%), then Edwards and the Rev. Al Sharpton (5%).

The TIME/CNN Poll, conducted November 18-19, 2003 by HarrisInteractive, surveyed 1,330 registered voters by telephone. The margin of error is +/-2.7% points for registered voters, and +/-4.7% for Democratic voters surveyed for TIME/CNN.

Developing...

[tkathy]

Developing...


A LANDSLIDE!!!

[MEG33]

This shows that they know nothing about Clark,AKA Dr Strangelove or he wouldn't do so well..

[clee1]

Newsflash: Most likely US voters have a brain.

The DemonCrap candidates want to hand US soverignty to the UN and then hire the French to open a surrender school.

[tbpiper]

Somewhere, somebody is deeply saddened.

[demkicker]

Yep, and no one is more deeply saddened than the fair and balanced folks at Time/CNN. < /sarcasm>

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...The margin of error is +/-2.7% points for registered voters, and +/-4.7% for Democratic voters...

Looks like democrat voters are still being disenfranchised or the pollsters used punch-card ballots...

[CaptainK]

But...but..every night Chris Matthews says he is going to lose.

[finnman69]

BWAHAHAHAHAH!

The nuts will start rethinking Dean after these polls keeep showing Dean losing bigger than the others.

[veronica]

I don't think Dean can be stopped. And I like it! :)

[been_lurking]

Democrats don't rely on registered voters to win elections. It is a meaningless poll as far as the Democrats are concerned.

[al_again]

I have to ask - is Bush really that great a president??? I will concede that he is much better than Gore or the currant group of Dem contenders, but.....

1) If non-discretionary spending remained flat, our country will be in a world of hurt by 2015 without a major overhaul of our entitlement programs.

2) Non-discretionary spending for the last 2 years has gone up 27%!!!!!! The majority of this increase has nothing to do with national security.

3) Another HUGE entitlement program is about to go into law.

4) No conservative/constitutionalist judges have been able to get confirmed (this is the real key to the little guy keeping gov't of their back).

From my perspective, who needs democrats with the current crowd running things.

Flame away.

[The_Victor]

I wonder what happens when they poll likely voters?

[fish hawk]

Dr. Strangelove, funny you mention that. I was just thinking about Clark the other day when he blew up and how he reminded me of the General in that movie that took over the base. (played by Sterling Hayden) LOL

[Grampa Dave]

Wait until the moderates find out how insane Clark is and who really controls him:

[petercooper]

so we don't need a damn 1 trillion dollar drug give-away bill!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

+/-2.7% points for registered voters, and +/-4.7% for Democratic voters...

Different sample sizes. As a rule of thumb, the "margin of error" is reported as 98% divided by the square root of the sample size, implying (accurate in the first two places) that the sample was 1300 voters, 430 of whom were Democrats.

[ChadGore]

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I've often wondered why most statisticians lack a sense of humor. ;-)

[Ole Okie]

Looks like democrat voters are still being disenfranchised or the pollsters used punch-card ballots

Pregnant chads will do it every time!

However, MOE is a function of sample size, and the dumRat sample is a subset of the overall sample. So this is expected.