For the record, When Algore picked Joe Leibertard to be his VP he went up
12 to 20 points depending on which poll you read.
JD
Kerry Fails to Get Lift From Edwards' Pick, Zogby Poll Shows
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic candidate John Kerry's standing against
President George W. Bush didn't improve following his pick of North
Carolina
Senator John Edwards as his running mate July 6, according to a Zogby
International poll.
Forty-eight percent of 1,008 likely voters polled by Zogby from July 6-7
sup****ted Kerry and Edwards and 46 percent back Bush and Vice President
Dick
Cheney. The two percentage-point margin is within the poll's 3.1
percentage
point margin of error and matches the two point spread in a Zogby poll
taken
June 2-5.
Other polls taken after Kerry's July 6 announcement show the Democrat
gaining popularity in a race that is still in a statistical dead heat. A
CBS
poll found a Kerry-Edwards ticket would draw the sup****t of 49 percent of
voters if the election were held now, compared with 44 percent for
Bush-Cheney, within the survey's margin of error. In a June 23-27 poll of
the same voters, Kerry drew 45 percent sup****t to Bush's 44 percent.
``This is not a big bounce electorate,'' pollster John Zogby said in a
statement. ``We are a nation that is split down the middle, polarized and
hardened.''
A day before Kerry's announcement, Bush campaign chief strategist Matthew
Dowd predicted the Kerry-Edwards ticket could enjoy a 15 percentage point
margin over Bush-Cheney following the July 26-29 Democratic National
Convention in Boston.
Kerry, 60, is a four-term U.S. senator from Massachusetts who beat out
Edwards this year in Democratic primaries to win the most pledged
delegates.
Edwards, 51, spent two decades as a trial lawyer before being elected to
the
Senate in 1998.
Age Differences
The poll by Utica, New York-based Zogby found voters 18-29 years of age
backed Kerry-Edwards over Bush-Cheney by 59 percent to 37 percent; voters
65
and older backed Kerry-Edwards 49 percent to 46 percent and singles backed
the Democratic ticket over Bush-Cheney by 62 percent to 26 percent.
The Republican ticket is backed by voters 50 to 64 years old 49 percent to
46 percent for Kerry-Edwards; men back Bush-Cheney over Kerry-Edwards 50
percent to 43 percent and 53 percent of married couples back Bush-Cheney
while 42 percent back Kerry- Edwards.
To win the presidency, a candidate must gain majorities in enough states
to
collect at least 270 Electoral College votes, which are ap****tioned among
states based on population. That tally, rather than the national vote
totals
reflected in polls, determines the election winner.
A review of state-by-state polls and historical voting data by Bloomberg
News shows Bush, 58, ahead in 20 states, including Texas, Arizona and
Kansas, with 165 electoral votes. Kerry leads in 11 states, including New
York, New Jersey and California, with 168 electoral votes. In 19 states
that
have 205 electoral votes, including Wa****ngton, Maine and Oregon, results
of
the most recent polls are within the margin of error.
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Let the name calling begin!!! (its all you libs have)
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