Kerry Surges ahead in Newsweek Poll.

[wilheim]

WASHINGTON - July 11 2004 - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry got a boost in the polls after picking Sen. John Edwards as his running mate and would beat President Bush if the election was held now, according to a new Newsweek poll.
The Kerry-Edwards ticket is leading Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney by a margin of six percentage points, 51 percent to 45 percent, the poll said.

The survey of 1,001 adults, to be published in the July 19 issue of the magazine, was taken July 8-9 and has a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.

It was the first Newsweek poll since Kerry chose the North Carolina lawmaker as his running mate on July 6. Kerry led Bush 46 percent to 45 percent in the magazine's previous survey in mid-May.

But in a three-way race with independent candidates Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo, Kerry-Edwards edged Bush-Cheney by a slimmer margin, just 47 percent to 44 percent. Nader-Camejo drew support from 3 percent of those polled.

The poll comes amid speculation Cheney may be hurting Bush's chances of winning re-election. Cheney has been a lighting rod for Democratic criticism because of his role in advocating for the invasion of Iraq and his previous ties with energy company Halliburton, which is being probed for overcharging for its services in Iraq.

Cheney has distanced himself from any claims that he has a financial stake in Halliburton, and Bush has strongly endorsed the vice president as his running mate.

However, the Newsweek poll said that if Bush replaced Cheney with Secretary of State Colin Powell, the ticket would defeat Kerry-Edwards by 53 percent to 44 percent.


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[LarryWiley]

Are there two "first Newsweek" polls after Edwards?

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5411094/site/newsweek/

"Although the John Kerry campaign enjoyed a rush of positive media coverage after announcing that John Edwards would be the Democratic candidate’s running mate, it is still locked in a dead heat with the Republican ticket, according to the first NEWSWEEK poll conducted since Edwards was tapped."

Confusing.

 

[Skyweasel]

Uh oh, must be time for another "Al Qaeda" attack. On Wall Street (again). Yeah, that's the ticket.

 

[Satan'sStory]

Not only does the Bush/Cheny ticket look less appealing everyday compared to Kerry...

But everytime Bush opens his mouth in front of the press he just sounds dumber and dumber...

 

[ChuckSims]

The American people are finally waking up. Look for Bush and his cronies to raise the security coded-level to orange before the election to scare the unknowing into voting for Bush.

 

[WildBill]

What do you mean Chuck? They will raise to "boiling red" and tell everyone to stay home from voting if the polling looks bad

 

[LarryWiley]

http://www.indystar.com/articles/8/161789-8008-010.html

Edwards' addition to ticket not pushing Democrats higher in polls


By Tim Funk
Knight Ridder Newspapers
July 12, 2004


WASHINGTON -- The national spotlight burned even brighter Sunday on Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards, though new polls suggested that Kerry's choice of the North Carolina Democrat is not giving the party's presidential ticket much of a bounce in the polls.

The same polls indicated that Edwards is more popular with voters than Vice President Dick Cheney, but that has yet to make a difference on the presidential race itself. A poll by Newsweek found Kerry is still locked in a dead heat with President Bush; nearly 70 percent of those surveyed said the choice of Edwards won't make a difference in the race for the White House.

 

[LarryWiley]

Some of you give honest liberals a bad rep. No matter how we spin Edwards he has not helped our cause.

 

[PatPatriot]

Democrat ticket got a very small bump from "That 70's show." ticket of disco ducks Kerry- and Edwards.
same old tired haircuts, same old tired message.

 

[LarryWiley]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Larry Wiley:
Some of you give honest liberals a bad rep. No matter how we spin Edwards he has not helped our cause.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

We must live in the real world!

Since wilheim did not list the hyperlink I had to search and find the article above. In the real world the race is a three man race not a two man one so poll numbers for only two men mean nothing. The poll numbers are even closer, easily within the margin of error, when polling "likely voters" which the 6% margin was not! The 6% came from "registered voters."

 

[PatPatriot]

Larry newsweek also poste what a Bush/Powell ticket would look like...Bush would win by almost 10 points,and they left out the Nader factor.

 

[codeworks]

I like Powell but he could not run with that nit wit GW