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WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- President George W. Bush anticipates a Republican gain of up to four Senate seats and seven House seats in November and has caused Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) to abandon many states that had been considered battlegrounds earlier this year, White House political strategist Karl Rove said yesterday. With the November 2nd Presidential election less than six weeks away, most recent polls show Bush's popularity surging ahead of Kerry in several states won by Al Gore in 2000. This push by Bush has caused Kerry to reallocate resources to protect the electoral votes that he once considered...

President Bush has pulled even with John Kerry in New Jersey and is surging in key battleground states captured by Al Gore in 2000, polls out yesterday show. Bush holds slim leads in five of the seven states that narrowly went for Gore, the Democratic nominee, four years ago, according to a Knight-Ridder/MSNBC survey. Even in Iowa, the state that jump-started Kerry's primary campaign and hasn't voted for a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984, Bush has jumped out to a 6-point lead. The president also leads Kerry in New Mexico, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Oregon by 2 to 4 points,...

The contest between President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry looks much as it did in a CBS News Poll conducted last week, after the Republican convention. Bush’s post-convention bounce remains intact, if even slightly larger in this poll; Bush now leads Kerry 50 percent to 41 percent among registered voters, giving the President a 9-point margin. PDF File w/ internals: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/CBSNews_polls/poll0917.pdf

Less than seven weeks before Election Day, Americans continue to think that the nation is heading in the wrong direction and are distressed about how President Bush has handled the economy. Yet the president, apparently lifted as much by what Sen. John Kerry has done wrong as by what Bush has done right in the campaign, has an eight-point lead among registered voters over Kerry, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. In one particularly troublesome sign for Kerry, a majority of voters said he is spending too much time attacking Bush and talking about the past, rather...

Senator John Kerry faces substantial obstacles in his bid to unseat President Bush, with voters saying he has not laid out a case for why he wants to be president and expressing strong concern about his ability to manage an international crisis, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.

Somebody get them a tissue.

slate.com If the Election Were Held Today Bush 329 Electoral Votes 183 solid, 146 close Kerry 209 Electoral Votes 146 solid, 63 close The following tables track the latest polls in the presidential race. In the Trial Heat, respondents were asked for whom they would vote. On Job Approval, they were asked whether they approve or disapprove of Bush's performance. On Re-Elect, they were asked whether Bush deserves to be reelected or not. On Right Direction, they were asked whether things are going in the right direction or are on the wrong track. On Favorable Rating, they were asked whether...

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CORRECTED: Poll Finds Bush Lead Surging Among Likely Voters Fri Sep 17, 2004 02:11 PM ET (Correcting to show this was a Gallup Poll only and deletes reference to statistically significant edge) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush has surged to a 13-point lead over Democratic challenger John Kerry among likely voters, according to a new Gallup Poll released on Friday. USA Today, which published the poll, said Bush was leading 55 percent to 42 percent for the Massachusetts senator in the survey conducted Monday through Wednesday. Among registered voters, Bush held an 8-point lead over Kerry, 52 percent to 44...

PRINCETON, NJ -- In a new Gallup Poll, conducted Sept. 13-15, President George W. Bush leads Democratic candidate John Kerry by 55% to 42% among likely voters, and by 52% to 44% among registered voters. These figures represent a significant improvement for Bush since just before the beginning of the Republican National Convention. READ MORE HERE

Tim Russert: There have been ten national polls in the past three weeks. They all show one thing – George W. Bush is ahead. Now, you talk to the campaigns privately, they’ll tell you they believe President Bush is ahead five to six points nationally and he’s pulling ahead in the battleground states. The momentum is with the president. There’s no doubt about it. John Kerry has a lot of work to do. MSNBC: There are only 45 days until Election Day. Is that enough time for John Kerry to make that turnaround? Russert: It’s uphill. But the presidential debate...

Check out this website. It's pretty accurate, but the webmaster is a self-admitted Kerry supporter.

Bush poll-vaults in Pa. Keystone data show prez reclaiming his lead from Kerry By NICOLE WEISENSEEEGAN weisenn@phillynews.com PRESIDENT BUSH has recaptured his lead in Pennsylvania, albeit by a narrow margin, against Democratic rival John Kerry, according to the latest Philadelphia Daily News/CN8 Keystone Poll. Bush now leads Kerry 47 to 45 percent among registered voters in the state with 8 percent still undecided. The lead was within the poll's 4.4 percent margin of error, essentially making it a tie. But there's no debating that Bush has bounced back. In the August Keystone Poll, Kerry was up 6 points over Bush....

President leads Kerry by 13 points among likely voters; 8 points among registered votersPRINCETON, NJ -- In a new Gallup Poll, conducted Sept. 13-15, President George W. Bush leads Democratic candidate John Kerry by 55% to 42% among likely voters, and by 52% to 44% among registered voters. These figures represent a significant improvement for Bush since just before the beginning of the Republican National Convention.In the immediate aftermath of that convention, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll showed Bush receiving a modest bounce from his standing before the convention. Among likely voters, Bush's support was up two points and Kerry's was...

Sen. John Kerry and President Bush are now enjoying almost equal levels of support, according to the latest Harris Interactive poll. Immediately after the Republican convention in New York, several polls showed Mr. Bush jumping ahead of Mr. Kerry with a clear lead of between six and 11 percentage points. There's no such 'convention bounce' for the president in the latest poll by Harris. The Harris poll, conducted by telephone Sept. 9-13, shows Sen. Kerry leading Mr. Bush 48% to 47% among likely voters nationwide. The poll also found that a slender 51% to 45% majority doesn't believe that Mr....

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...

For those following the numbers at the Iowa Electronic Market, Kerry's stock is disappearing faster than Dan Rather's credibility. In one week, since Rathergate started, Kerry has dropped from an average about 45 to 41, his lowest points since this opened up in June. Bush's stock has gone up at about the same pace as he has gone from the 54 to 58 mark. So in one week, Bush has gone from a 10 to an almost 20 point lead over Kerry in the Iowa Electronic Market Check out this chart: http://128.255.244.60/graphs/graph_Pres04_WTA.cfm

MPR poll: Bush momentum builds over Kerry in Minnesota by Laura McCallum, Minnesota Public Radio September 16, 2004 As President Bush makes a three-city campaign swing through Minnesota, a new poll shows him with a narrow lead over Democrat John Kerry in the state. It's the first time Bush has led Kerry in the Minnesota Public Radio-St. Paul Pioneer Press poll. The slim two-point lead is within the poll's margin of sampling error, and pollsters say the race is still a toss-up. St. Paul, Minn. — Forty-six percent of those polled earlier this week say if the election were held...

President Bush is eroding John Kerry's lead in overwhelmingly Democratic New York and Team Bush is sending the First Lady into New Jersey to test Kerry's hold there. A new Marist poll shows Kerry has fumbled an 18-point advantage in New York and now leads Bush 48% to 40%. And a Quinnipiac poll gives Kerry a mere 47-to-41 lead. Despite Kerry's New York slide, a Republican win in New York still would be a stretch, said Lee Miringoff of Marist. "The expectation is that New York remains a so-called 'blue state,'" he said. The GOP is tempted to make a...

The best thing financial consultant Johnny Khamis heard out of New York was that you don't have to agree with the party to be a Republican. It seems a lot of other Arab-American Republicans heard the same message. A new poll shows them switching from John Kerry back to Bush just since the Republican National Convention. The switch could re-elect Bush. Arab-Americans number the margin of victory in several key states. They represent 5% of the vote in Michigan, 2% in Florida, 2% in Ohio and 1.5% in Pennsylvania. In 2000, Arab-Americans backed Bush over Al Gore, 45% to 38%....