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Tracking poll: Bush may be expanding lead over Gore By CNN Polling Director Keating Holland WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush may be expanding his narrow lead over Vice President Al Gore in the hard-fought presidential race, according to Friday's CNN/USA Today/Gallup tracking poll. Friday's results indicate Bush garnering 50 percent and Gore drawing 40 percent of likely voters' suppor

George W Bush has picked himself up off the floor and reopened a narrow poll and credibility lead over Al Gore in the US presidential election. Mr Bush went into last night's second televised debate with Mr Gore oozing with fresh confidence after a damaging week for the Democratic nominee. Since opening up a lead over Mr Bush in mid-August, Mr Gore has struggled to rebut damaging claims that he bent the facts during last week's first televised debate....The vice-president still leads in the most recent polls in the battleground states. Although Mr Gore was at first widely perceived to...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton leads Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a hypothetical presidential matchup, an independent poll released Friday shows. The poll, conducted by Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion with New York City television station WNBC, gave the former first lady 50 percent to 41 percent for Rice. But Republicans John McCain and Rudolph Giuliani both topped Clinton. Clinton, McCain and Giuliani are all considered potential 2008 presidential candidates. Rice has said she will not run. The poll, mirroring other recent national surveys, had Clinton as the clear front-runner for the 2008 Democratic nomination, favored...