{"id":2724,"date":"2004-10-09T09:52:28","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T14:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2724.html"},"modified":"2004-10-09T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T14:52:28","slug":"a-little-closer-than-last-week-in-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-little-closer-than-last-week-in-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"A little closer than last week in the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politicselections\/nation\/polls\/2004-10-09-poll_x.htm\">USA Today\/CNN\/Gallup<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Overall, 47% of the 515 registered voters surveyed said Kerry won, while 45% said the edge went to Bush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/politics\/Vote2004\/second_debate_instapoll_041008.html\">ABC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among registered voters who watched Friday night&#8217;s debate, 44 percent called John Kerry the winner, 41 percent said President Bush won and 13 percent called it a tie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush benefited not from a good performance, but from simply being better than last week. Measured alone, I suspect the numbers would have been far stronger in Kerry&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>The trick will be to see how these polls change after post-debate analysis has set in. Last week, immediately after the debate, polls showed Kerry having won the debate by a comfortable margin. By this week, the same question showed Kerry having won by a ridiculously large margin, after people heard more about Bush&#8217;s poor performance.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are, the St. Louis debate won&#8217;t have quite the same trend, but we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today\/CNN\/Gallup: Overall, 47% of the 515 registered voters surveyed said Kerry won, while 45% said the edge went to Bush. ABC News: Among registered voters who watched Friday night&#8217;s debate, 44 percent called John Kerry the winner, 41 percent said President Bush won and 13 percent called it a tie. Bush benefited not from [&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-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","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=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}