[lbo-talk] More Voters Deciding Not to Support Bush

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Tue Nov 4 12:27:18 PST 2003


[The interesting thing is that these numbers of 44% definately voting against Bush and 38% definately voting for him co-exist with the same 53% overall approval rating generally reported by all polls.]

New York Times November 4, 2003

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 10:58 a.m. ET

More Voters Deciding Not to Support Bush

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- More than four in 10 voters nationwide say they

definitely plan to vote against President Bush next year -- more than

plan to vote for him, according to a poll released Tuesday.

The survey by Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion found that

44 percent of the voters questioned said they planned to definitely

vote against the Republican president while 38 percent said they would

support his re-election.

An April survey from the Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based pollsters had found

that 40 percent of voters nationwide planned to vote for Bush while 30

percent said they would vote against him.

The latest poll also found a drop in Bush's approval rating, which has

been reflected in other recent nationwide polls. The Marist poll had

the president's approval rating at 53 percent, down from 70 percent in

its April poll.

In the new poll, voters were split on Bush's handling of postwar Iraq

and the economy.

Among Democratic voters, here was no clear choice about who should be

the party's candidate. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean led the way

with 16 percent of Democratic voters backing him followed by Sen. Joe

Lieberman of Connecticut at 12 percent and Rep. Dick Gephardt of

Missouri at 10 percent. The other Democratic contenders were all in

single digits. One in three Democratic voters said they were undecided

on who should be the party's nominee.

In theoretical matchups against the Democrats, Bush led them all.

Closest to the president -- 48 percent to 43 percent -- was Gephardt.

Marist's telephone poll of 788 registered voters was conducted Oct.

27-29 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage

points.

Copyright 2003 The Associated Press



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