AP Poll: Kerry Holds Small Lead Over Bush(Sick of it!)

AP ^ | 10/7/2004 | RON FOURNIER,

[PreciousLiberty]

Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) has taken a slim lead over President Bush (news - web sites), according to an Associated Press poll that shows the president's support tumbling on personal qualities, the war in Iraq (news - web sites) and the commander in chief's bedrock campaign issue — national security.

[aft_lizard]

CNN Headline News lead with that at the half hour, it was sickening.

[hobson]

This IS very suspicious. AP IPsos has no record of this poll and it sounds like Fournier is prone to secrecy when reporting on polls. It might be a good idea to amend the title of this thread to read "AP Poll is suspect" or something so we won't get tons of threads fretting and questioning this poll.

[kingattax]

AP Poll :

[kesg]

Hmm...check out this link:

http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=4388.

[hobson]

Yes, Merry pointed that out. Something is fishy. I think the CBS Memo route didn't work out for them and they've gone to plan B. The AP was just as, if not MORE, involved in the guard story as CBS.

[Dave S]

Does Ron Fournier get paid extra to write multiple stories on the same poll?

What are you talking about?

[Dave S]

Kerry leads or ties in just a couple of polls...W leads the rest...which ones get press?

If only the Kerry lead polls are being published, how do you know the results of the other polls? Duh? They dont just magically appear on Free Republic. They are published in newspapers, magazines, websites, in press releases to all media. Blah Blah.

The polls that are going to get the widest coverage are those affilliated with the AP/Washington Post/NYT because there stuff gets picked up by other papers and repeated and by the weekly newsweeklies because they are well known by the public.

[Utah Girl]

My home page is netscape.com (soon to change.) I logged on this evening and the headline was "Polls Change: Kerry now ahead of Bush." Click on the article and it is ONE poll. The misrepresentation by the media is just mind boggling.

[goldstategop]

Until the internals are posted, I'd dismiss it without a second thought.

[nimbysrule]

Plese check the Polipundit site and piece on this - still no internals, and the thing has been out for over 12 hours. Polipundits are bird dogging it. Not only a Yahoo headline story by Ron Fournier (I just learned tonight he persuaded Al Gore to start the attempted GTE - Grand theft Election - in Fla 2000 and is of course a complete Dem shill) with the headline "numbers", but it's been up on Real Clear since this morning. I bet there will be some busy little bees buzzing around Ap and Ipsos this weekend, especially after the debate tomorrow, which will give them another excuse to jerk the numbers around even more.

How far do you think they'll try to go?

[Terp]

Wow! Kerry will never overcome that lead.

Who cares if Kerry does? This is about winning the Electoral Count. Keep your eyes on the ball!

[dubyain04jebin08and12]

They all get press. This one is getting special attention because none of them have showed Kerry leading since the Swift Boat stuff started. It is wise strategically to use the attention this poll is getting to discredit the media as biased though.