Posted on 09/27/2004 12:56:44 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's lead over Democratic nominee John Kerry narrowed to eight points in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of likely voters released on Monday, compared with a 13-point lead in the poll conducted two weeks ago. The survey of likely voters showed 52 percent would vote for Bush and 44 percent for Kerry. A similar poll conducted from Sept. 13-15 showed Bush with 55 percent compared to Kerry at 42 percent.
However, among registered voters Bush's lead widened to 13 percent with 54 percent supporting the president and 41 percent backing Kerry. It was up from the earlier poll in mid-September that had 52 percent of registered voters behind Bush and 44 percent in favor of Kerry.
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HAHAHHAAA...
The poster below stated the headline would be this...great call.
I still don't understand how Bush have a larger lead among "registered".
They can't have their readers committing suicide--it's bad for business.
There polling less independents and more main stream party registered
But to use Danny boys terminology misleading but "it's accurate"
Gallup Ping
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Biased headline - let's start the email/phone campaign to have them correct it
This must be screwed up. Bush always has a smaller lead amongst registered voters than he does amongst likely voters. They probably got it assbackwards.
Could you manage the headline if it were Kerry who was leading by 8? "Kerry expected to CRUSH Bush in November" or "Bush's Hopes Fade", "Kerry has HUGE (or is it HUGH) Lead Over Bush", etc.
The headlines being written lately seem to have very little correlation with the content of the stories. Just another way they think they're manipulating the public.
Kinda casts doubt on how they get to "likely."
That would suggest that the polling over-samples Republicans, which means that the actual lead is in the 5-6% range. That would be quite good, but we shouldn't celebrate yet.
The headline is technically accurate, but can't be authenticated. There is no controlling legal authority over headlines anyway.
This is great news. The Registered Voters is even better. This is the time in which actual registered means more than likely because if the likely haven't registered by now in most states, it's too late.
As this thread states: We Can Lose This Election:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1228197/posts?page=31#31
Reuters. Their headlines are always an exercise in creative writing.
Alternative headline: "Bush Lead Way Outside Margin of Error"
I think it's now ten weeks since the president took the lead in Gallup and it's settled in at a nice number. I'll take 52% but I know it will be more. I'll ask Gallup the same question we can ask rasmussen: If the national numbers are getting closer, which state ( just name a single state, please) has seen such a surge for frenchie that it moved his national number up by 5 points?
If it's now 5 in Calf, 4 in Illinois tied in Maryland 4 in New York and tied in New Jersey, just where has this kerry "surge" come from?
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