TIME Poll: Bush Opens 5 Point Lead Against Kerry

[NeoConsSuck]

President Bush has opened a 5 point lead against Senator John Kerry, according the latest TIME poll. If the 2004 election for President were held today, 51% of likely voters surveyed would vote for President George W. Bush, 46% would vote for Senator John Kerry, and 2% would vote for Ralph Nader, according to the TIME poll conducted by telephone from Oct. 19 – 21. Among all registered voters surveyed, Bush leads Kerry 50% to 43%.

Last week’s TIME poll found 48% of likely voters would vote for Bush, 47% would vote for Kerry, and 3% would vote for Nader. That poll was conducted Oct. 14-15 and included 865 likely voters.

Poll results will appear in the upcoming issue of TIME magazine, on newsstands Monday, Oct. 25. See methodology below for margin of error and sample size information.


http://www.time.com/time/election2004/article/0,18471,733715,00.html?cnn=yes

[unfrigginreal]

1. Bzzzzt

Posting a Friday story in LBN? What could possibly be the motive?

[NewHampshireDem]

2. *YAWN*

Wolves! The sky is falling! Wolves! Terra! Terra! Terra!

Now, the polls have spoken, so whatever you do DO NOT VOTE!

[wolfgirl]

3. And I have

some prime waterfront property just south of Mobile...

[slor]

4. And Phoney McRing Ring...

is going to be named CEO and top spokesperson for Cincinnati Bell.

[Sinnerman]

5. Just another Ploy to Suppress the vote

[Laelth]

6. Bull hockey!

Let the freepers dream on while we ...

:dem:

Kerry on!

-Laelth

[bowens43]

7. National polls are meaningless at this point

[unfrigginreal]

8. WaPo - GOP official says mood at Bush Campaign is apprehensive

Candidates Hit Key States With Election Still a Tossup

By Mike Allen and Lois Romano
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, October 24, 2004; Page A09

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 23 -- President Bush turned his Marine One chopper into a campaign prop Saturday and used it to drop in on huge crowds at three stadiums around Florida, at a time of concern in his campaign about his failure to gain a decisive lead in the most crucial battlegrounds.

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GOP officials who talked to Bush-Cheney campaign leaders said the leaders have grown more worried about Ohio, Florida and other key states where Bush lacks a lead with just 10 days until the election. A poll by Ohio University's Scripps Survey Research Center, completed Thursday night, found Kerry leading 49 percent to 43 percent among registered voters, with a margin of error of five percentage points.

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One Republican official described the mood at the top of the campaign as apprehensive. " 'Grim' is too strong," the official said. "If we feel this way a week from now, that will be grim."

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The Republican official said polling for Bush showed him in a weaker position than some published polls have indicated, both nationally and in battlegrounds. In many of the key states, the official said, Bush is below 50 percent, and he is ahead or behind within the margin of sampling error -- a statistical tie.

"There's just no place where they're polling outside the margin of error so they can say, 'We have this state,' " the official said. "And they know that an incumbent needs to be outside the margin of error."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57458-2004Oct23_2.html

[0007]

9. Ho Hum these little Karl beavers are at it early this morning, 'eh?

[Moderator]

10. more than 12 hours old--not LBN