Lieberman Leads Field of Nine Bush not seen as invincible
by Lydia Saad GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ -- A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll on the 2004 presidential election, based on a national survey conducted April 22-23, finds Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman holding a slight edge over the field of nine Democratic candidates that will meet in South Carolina this weekend in the season's first nationally televised debate. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt follow close behind. In March, Lieberman had tied Kerry for second place, with Gephardt in the lead.
The same poll shows George W. Bush in a relatively strong position against the Democrats in the general election, but without the sense of invincibility that surrounded his father after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
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