AP story= Lies. Yet, a flurry of state polls come out today showing Bush getting significant upward movement across the board. How can national numbers come down?
Posted on 09/16/2004 2:11:26 PM PDT by alydar
Poll: W's convention bounce over; race now virtual tie
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The GOP convention gave President Bush a double-digit lead, but the race has settled into a virtual tie with voters still worried about the economy and Iraq, according to polling by the Pew Research Center. The first of two national polls by Pew, done Sept. 8-10, reflected the president’s post-convention bounce. Bush was ahead of Democrat John Kerry 52-40 among registered voters and by an even wider margin, 54-39, among likely voters, a narrower group.
By the second poll, done Sept. 11-14, the Bush lead had evaporated. In that poll, Bush and Kerry were knotted at 46 percent among registered voters. Among likely voters, Bush was at 47 percent and Kerry at 46 percent.
“There is a great deal of instability and uncertainty in the electorate,” said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
“This poll finds a lot of the positive impact Bush had in the convention remains. But Bush’s vulnerabilities on Iraq and the economy continue, and these have anchored the race.” After the Republican convention and its well-orchestrated criticism
of Kerry, Bush grabbed a lead ranging from 5 points to 11 points in various national polls. That lead appeared to be shrinking in some polls by late last week, and a Harris poll out Thursday showed the race even.
“This gives Kerry an opportunity to stay in the hunt,” said Kohut.
“Some of the negatives that Kerry accumulated during the Republican convention have worn away.” Kerry’s unfavorable ratings increased after the GOP convention but dropped slightly between the two waves of the poll. Fewer voters in the second poll had an unfavorable view of the Democrat, said Kerry is too quick to change his mind, and believed the risk of terrorism would be higher if he were elected.
Bush continues to hold a commanding lead on who would do the best job of defending the country from terrorists by 58 percent to 31 percent. And he’s seen by more as a strong leader.
But people are more likely to disapprove of Bush’s handling of the economy and are evenly split on his handling of Iraq. Almost six in 10 said it’s not clear what Bush will do about Iraq if he is re-elected.
Two-thirds thought Vice President Dick Cheney went too far when he suggested that if voters “make the wrong choice” on Election Day there is a danger “we’ll get hit again” by terrorists.
Interest in the presidential debates is high with 61 percent saying it’s very likely they will tune in to watch — compared with 43 percent who said that in September 2000. Three in 10 said the debates will matter in their voting decision.
By a 3-1 margin, voters said they think Bush is likely to win re-election in November.
The first poll of 970 registered voters was taken Sept. 8-10 and the second poll of 1,002 registered voters was taken Sept. 11-14. The margin of sampling error for both polls was 3.5 percentage points.
Originally published on September 16, 2004
They wish!
Depends on which poll you're looking at. Clearly, AP went out and found one where the race is "tied."
Good ol' Pew is mining the registered voters pool, instead of likely voters, to bolster Kerry. I'm surprised they didn't throw a few dozen Frenchmen in for good measure.
How many times are we going to post this poll today?
I find it hard to believe that there was such movement in just 4 days.
I can't believe that two polls, conducted so soon after each other, would show such a swing. Given that most of the news in the last week was negative toward Kerry, there's no way that voters could be that fickle.
Just wait until the debates, kerry will be lucky he gets a ZERO in the polls!
Both Polls lean Democrat, especially Harris who had Carter a couple points ahead of Reagan right before the l980 election.
AP story= Lies. Yet, a flurry of state polls come out today showing Bush getting significant upward movement across the board. How can national numbers come down?
And what sort of statistical massaging are they doing? Didn't like the numbers of Dems vs. Reps so weighed the numbers to reflect 2000? Didn't like the number of Independents from 2 weeks ago who are now leaning Reps, so broke it 3-1 for Kerry? Hmmmm
Well still he is in a tie- before he was lower than Kerry. I'd call that a permanent bump.
The methods used are insanely fraudulent. They polled adults who were not even registered.
Watch the behavior of the campaigns. That tells you.
AP is just whistling past the graveyard, from what I hear Kerrys showing signs of weakness in NJ of all places. If he's unsure about places like the Peoples Republic of New Jersey, then he's toast.
State polls do lag behind national polls.
Well Gallup today put Bush ahead in Wisconsin and tied in Minnesota...
And if you read, they aren't very encouraging for Kerry...
http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=13057
Aah to be a Kerry supporter and pray each day that the economy tanks and more Americans die in Iraq.
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