{"id":2692,"date":"2004-10-06T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2692.html"},"modified":"2004-10-06T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T14:50:13","slug":"polls-look-mostly-encouraging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/polls-look-mostly-encouraging\/","title":{"rendered":"Polls look mostly encouraging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a decisive Edwards victory in Cleveland, but what was the general reaction from everyone else? At this point, the polls appear mixed.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News showed it <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/politics\/Vote2004\/vp_debate_poll_041006.html\">relatively close<\/a>: Cheney 43%, Edwards 35%, Tie 19%. But, the sample included more Republicans than Democrats (38%-31%), so that&#8217;s to be expected.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most importantly, before the debate, the same ABC News poll showed Bush with an overall lead over Kerry, 51%-48%, but after the debate, the gap closed to 50%-49%. Good sign.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News, meanwhile, polled only self-identified uncommitted voters, who believed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/09\/08\/politics\/main641817.shtml\">Edwards beat Cheney<\/a> &#8212; 41% to 28%. <\/p>\n<p>The same poll asked respondents if their opinions of the candidates improved as a result of the debate. For Cheney, 29% said their opinion improved. For Edwards, 58% said their opinion improved. Another good sign of an Edwards victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a decisive Edwards victory in Cleveland, but what was the general reaction from everyone else? At this point, the polls appear mixed. ABC News showed it relatively close: Cheney 43%, Edwards 35%, Tie 19%. But, the sample included more Republicans than Democrats (38%-31%), so that&#8217;s to be expected. Perhaps most importantly, before the [&hellip;]<\/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-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}