{"id":2109,"date":"2004-07-13T10:02:37","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2109.html"},"modified":"2004-07-13T10:02:37","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T15:02:37","slug":"more-encouraging-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/more-encouraging-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"More encouraging polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some will say it’s due to John Edwards, others will say it’s a coincidence, but John Kerry is really hitting his stride in the national polls.<\/p>\n

The latest results from Newsweek<\/a> show Kerry leading Bush in a head-to-head match-up, 51% to 45%. The lead is smaller once a certain former consumer advocate is thrown into the mix (Kerry 47%, Bush 44%, Nader 3%), but in either case, Bush can’t get above 45% support.<\/p>\n

Also encouraging from the Newsweek data, Kerry is enjoying strong support among self-identified independents (Kerry 53%, Bush 34%, Nader 6%), while most Americans believe Bush does not, in general, deserve another term in the White House (52% to 43%).<\/p>\n

A poll in this week’s issue of Time<\/a> was just as encouraging. While Bush enjoyed a narrow lead in the magazine’s poll taken last month, Kerry now leads Bush, 49% to 45%. With Edwards on the ticket, Kerry is even closing the gap in the South.<\/p>\n

In the June Poll, southern voters opted for Bush over Kerry by a margin of 56% to 35%. In the new poll, southern voters continue to support Bush over Kerry, but by a smaller margin of 48% to 41%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And finally, a CNN\/USA Today\/Gallup poll<\/a> released Monday included even more good news for those of us anxious to see a Kerry presidency. While the same outlet showed a narrow lead for Bush just two weeks ago, Kerry has surged ahead among likely voters — Kerry 50%, Bush 45%, Nader 2%. (If we expand it to registered voters, Kerry’s lead is even bigger — Kerry 50%, Bush 42%, Nader 4%.)<\/p>\n

It’s too early to pop the champagne bottles, but this has to be good for a morale boost and should put to rest any questions about whether John Edwards is helping John Kerry’s campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some will say it’s due to John Edwards, others will say it’s a coincidence, but John Kerry is really hitting his stride in the national polls. The latest results from Newsweek show Kerry leading Bush in a head-to-head match-up, 51% to 45%. The lead is smaller once a certain former consumer advocate is thrown into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}