{"id":742,"date":"2003-10-13T11:44:39","date_gmt":"2003-10-13T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/742.html"},"modified":"2003-10-13T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2003-10-13T16:44:39","slug":"the-latest-national-poll-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-latest-national-poll-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest national poll numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t had a post devoted to polling data in a while, so I thought it’d be a good time to delve into the latest Newsweek poll numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bush’s approval ratings haven’t changed much. In fact, they haven’t changed at all<\/i> since Newsweek’s Sept. 18 poll: 51 percent approve, 42 percent disapprove. Bush’s support for a second term is also at the exact same point as it was four weeks ago: 44 percent said they’d like to see Bush have another four years, while 50 percent said they wouldn’t.<\/p>\n

Newsweek still shows Gen. Clark with the national lead among the Democratic field:<\/p>\n

Clark — 15% (down from 16% in late-September)
\nLieberman — 13% (up from 9% in late-September)
\nKerry — 11% (up from 10% in late-September)
\nDean — 10% (down from 12% in late-September)
\nGephardt — 8% (down from 10% in late-September)
\nEdwards — 6% (no change from late-September)
\nand the other three at 5% or below<\/p>\n

Nothing shocking here, though I continue to marvel at Edwards’ poor showing. He’s performed well in all of the debates, yet he can’t seem to break through. His 6 percent support is identical to the support he’s enjoyed in every Newsweek poll since July. (Amy Sullivan thinks<\/a> Edwards may be having trouble because people are confusing him with the TV psychic of the same name. I hope that’s not the case.)<\/p>\n

Newsweek also asked respondents my favorite question: head-to-head match-ups of Bush vs. the top Dem candidates. As in all the previous Newsweek polls, Bush maintains a lead over all his potential rivals in a hypothetical general election scenarios. But, as before, some Dems did a lot better than others.<\/p>\n

As usual, Wesley Clark did the best, with 47% backing Bush and 43% supporting Clark — a 4-point margin. Kerry was the next best, trailing Bush by a 6-point margin. Gephardt was behind Bush by 7 points, Lieberman by 8 points, and, not surprisingly, Dean did the worst, again, trailing Bush by a 9-point margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t had a post devoted to polling data in a while, so I thought it’d be a good time to delve into the latest Newsweek poll numbers. Bush’s approval ratings haven’t changed much. In fact, they haven’t changed at all since Newsweek’s Sept. 18 poll: 51 percent approve, 42 percent disapprove. Bush’s support for […]<\/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-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}