Posted on 08/09/2004 5:28:52 PM PDT by RWR8189
CHICAGO (CBS 2) Illinois' senate race is heating up with both Democrat Barack Obama and new Republican candidate Alan Keyes in town pressing the flesh and warming up to voters.
The Republican candidate in this race may just be getting started, but according to an exclusive new CBS 2/Newsradio 780 poll, Keyes has a long way to go. 67 percent of Illinois voters prefer Democrat Obama; 28 percent would choose Keyes.
Keyes and his supporters were feeling the heat of the August sun as he announced for U.S. Senate at a crowded rally in Arlington Heights. Our exclusive voter opinion survey shows Obama generating another kind of heat.
Obama's lead in our CBS 2/Newsradio 780 Survey was most pronounced among women voters, 74 percent to 21percent for Keyes. Among men, it was 59 percent to 36 percent.
There was no surprise in strongly Democratic Chicago: 79 percent for Obama, 16 percent for Keyes.
But in the heavily Republican collar counties, it was Obama with 62 percent, Keyes with 34 percent. . Even downstate, 56 percent of those polled preferred Obama to 38 percent for Keyes. The results were almost the same in rural areas: 57 percent to 39 percent.
Virtually every Democrat we talked to favored Obama. Among independent voters, 64 percent chose Obama, 30 percent chose Keyes. Even among Republicans, 27 percent defected to Obama, 67 percent chose Keyes.
White voters went 62 percent to 32 percent for Obama; black voters by a margin of 89 percent to 10 percent.
The poll was conducted by Survey USA this past Friday and Saturday. It is accurate to within plus or minus four percentage points.
ping
I think I'll wait esp.since he just JOINED the race *LOL*
Keyes needs to start accepting some of these press requests for interviews.
Yep me too, nice start considering the circumstances.
Looks like Keyes is on track to getting his usual 29% of the vote.
The Republicans would have been better off letting Obama win unopposed than letting him use this crackpot as a foil.
give it time, he is on Hannity tonight.
Keyes will get more PR for this than for all the other times he ran for president, etc., put together. Mainly because the Secret Masters asked him to run this time.
Remember Bustamante was leading in double digits. Also Arnold got into the race two maonths before the election, Keyes closer to three months.
Also, IMO, KQQL's, input is useless since fatalism seems to be his personality trait.
I believe that he's on Hannity & Colmes tonight.
Ouchies!
I support opposition to any lefty, anytime.
Better to try and lose trying than to give up without a fight.
Osama needs to get knocked down a few notches anyway.
" Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt, Speech to the Hamilton Club, April 10, 1899
If Keyes gets to 40% I'll be surprised. This might be his best #'s.
that's 28% more than 0%, which is where the GOP was when they didn't have a candidate.
And I was attacked as a "defeatist" for predicting Keyes would not win this election.
"give it time, he is on Hannity tonight."
Big whoop[ - he's not going to get the undecidedes or swing voters there. Hannity is just preaching to the choir.
Keyes chances ARE slim, but not impossible. This is a good baseline poll in a race that he finally has some slight chance of winning.
Oops, how could I make such a silly mistake?
;)
I agree - 40% is the max he will get.
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