Must Read Donkey Rising: Just How Bad is the latest CBS/NYT poll for Bush?

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/archives/000806.php

October 19, 2004

Just How Bad Is That CBS News/New York Times Poll for Bush?

Very bad. There's a reason why Matthew Dowd pledged his immortal soul to Gallup when confronted with the results of this survey.

And it's not the horse race result of the survey though that was pretty poor for Bush (45-45 in the 2-way RV matchup). It's the other results and the poll's internals that are so gruesome for the Bush-Cheney campaign.

Here are some of the key findings:

1. Kerry leads by 7 among independents.

2. Bush's approval rating is only 44 percent among RVs, but a truly abysmal 34 percent approval/50 percent diapproval among independents.

3. Democrats are up by 6 in the generic house content (10 points among independents).

4. Right direction/wrong track is 39/57 and a stunning 34/61 among independents.

5. Bush's approval ratings on Iraq, the economy and foreign policy are, respectively, 42, 42 and 41 (35, 34 and 33 among independents).

much more...

[Lex]

1. This all sounds GOOD.

I'm getting confident, but not TOO confident, of a Kerry win!

[milkyway]

2. Maybe there's hope for this country after all! What the poll basically

says is that the vast majority of Americans see through the bush bullshit. Kerry in a landslide.