AP Poll shows Bush/Cheney up 49/45

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AP Poll Rocks Kerry Camp: Edwards Hurts Ticket, Bush Now Leads

President Bush has opened up a lead over Sen. John Kerry in the latest voter survey, despite the addition of John Edwards to the Democratic ticket and 48 hours of non-stop media gushing over the selection.

The new Associated Press poll, released late Thursday afternoon, shows Bush-Cheney leading Kerry-Edwards by 49 to 45 percent. The Bush lead represents a five point improvement for the president, who was trailing Kerry in the same poll before Edwards joined his ticket.

That poll showed a hypothetical Kerry-Edwards ticket at 47 percent and Bush-Cheney at 44 percent.

In more bad news for the Kerry camp, the new AP poll showed that President Bush had regained the confidence of some voters on the economy and other domestic issues.

Typically, a vice presidential selection and the publicity that accompanies it gives a presidential ticket a significant boost. In 2000, Al Gore's decision to tap Sen Joe Liberman as his running mate gave the Democratic ticket a 15-point bounce.

Eight years earlier, presidential candidate Bill Clinton got a 19-point bounce with the addition of Gore to his ticket.

But with new poll by one of the liberal media's most repsected news organizations now showing that the selection of Edwards may have actually hurt Kerry, Democrats have reason to be more concerned than ever about their prospects in November.

If this is true, look for the Clintons to cut this Kerry/Edwards ticket down at the knees at the demmunist convention. Rush was saying today that they'd gotten only a 2% bounce if that from the choice for veep, and that normal was 12 - 15 points even for picking a ham sandwich. If Bush is actually up today, the dem ticket is basically toast.

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There's only one poll that matters, Honey...

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Isn't this hilarious?

It's like a parallel universe the conservatives live in...

It would be easy to leave it at "consider the source", but that wouldn't explain why this freak and others like him loves being lied to so much by the likes of NewsMax.

Here in reality is another poll:

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Presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry's selection of Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., to be his running mate already seems to be paying immediate, although perhaps temporary, dividends for his campaign, a new NBC poll finds. Still, nearly two-thirds of respondents say that the Edwards pick will ultimately not make a difference when they vote in November.

According to the poll, which was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, a Kerry-Edwards ticket gets support from 49 percent of registered voters, while President Bush and Vice President Cheney get 41 percent, and independent Ralph Nader and running mate Peter Camejo get 4 percent. In a two-way race, Kerry-Edwards leads Bush-Cheney, 54 percent to 43 percent.

These results represent a boost for Kerry's campaign, compared with polls from a week ago showing that the race was essentially tied. "Subject to confirmation in surveys with longer field periods, the numbers suggest at least a short-term bounce for the Democratic ticket," said Evans Witt, who conducted this poll, which was done on July 6 and based on interviews with 504 registered voters. The survey's margin of error is plus or minus 5 percentage points.

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Or maybe the parallel universise is where you are living?????

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AP Poll: Bush Gains Slight Lead Over Kerry

ABC News Linky

Sorry. I know how much you love dismissing sources but ABC News is just as good as your NBC News source.

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Zogby: No Poll Bounce For Kerry
Zogby
July 8, 2004

Kerry-Edwards Pulls In Ahead of Bush-Cheney 48%-46%; No Big Bounce for Kerry; Country Still Evenly Divided in Red and Blue States; Nearly One in Ten Likely Voters Say that "Their Vote is Not Counted Accurately," New Zogby America Poll Reveals

The newly announced Democratic Presidential ticket of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards enters the race with a two point lead over President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney (48%-46%), according to a new Zogby America poll. The poll of 1008 likely voters was conducted Tuesday and Wednesday (July 6-7, 2004). Overall results have a margin of sampling error of +/-3.1.

In a one on one match-up with the President, Kerry leads by two points (46%-44%), with 7% undecided. Kerry shows no significant bounce here in spite the recent announcement of his vice-presidential running mate.

Independent candidate Ralph Nader garners two percentages points when he is added into the 3-way race. Kerry's and Bush's percentages are virtually unchanged from last month. Similar to the showing in the two-way race, Kerry holds a two-point lead over the President (47% to 45%).

Overall approval of President Bush's job performance moved up two points this month to 49%, with more than half of respondents expressing disapproval of the Bush administration's performance on the economy (59%); foreign policy (54%); health care (68%); education (63%); and the environment (60%).

Pollster John Zogby: "This is not a big bounce electorate. Let me repeat again: we are a nation that is split down the middle, polarized and hardened. What happened in the past 48 hours is that Undecideds are back down to the 5%-7% range. Kerry's announcement of Edwards as his running mate brought some of those who defected into the undecided camp in June back into the fold. At the same time, it seems to have also re-energized Bush supporters. Where we are today is probably where we are going to be through much of the summer, if not through most of this campaign.

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Do you two fellas actually think I'm disputing the ABC poll numbers?

What's wrong with you?

This is the bizarre part (just so you're clear):

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AP Poll Rocks Kerry Camp: Edwards Hurts Ticket

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48 hours of non-stop media gushing over the selection

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In more bad news for the Kerry camp

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Democrats have reason to be more concerned than ever about their prospects in November

Get it? It's the spin that's laughable.

And we didn't say anything about this guy's own interpretation...

The three of you should consider going on over to Free Republic and posting on the "Elizabeth Edwards is fat" thread.

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The fact is a corpse could upstage Kerry, he's the cold shower on the John/John ticket.

So you can go over to the DU forum and post in the 'Hi, my name is PDiddie and I'm in denial' thread.

The spin in the title is a separate universe from the numbers which are not impressive. Get it?

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PDiddie wrote:

Do you two fellas actually think I'm disputing the ABC poll numbers?

What's wrong with you?

This is the bizarre part (just so you're clear):

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AP Poll Rocks Kerry Camp: Edwards Hurts Ticket

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48 hours of non-stop media gushing over the selection

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In more bad news for the Kerry camp

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Democrats have reason to be more concerned than ever about their prospects in November

Get it? It's the spin that's laughable.

And we didn't say anything about this guy's own interpretation...

The three of you should consider going on over to Free Republic and posting on the "Elizabeth Edwards is fat" thread.

What is laughable is that anyone would use an "article" from Newsmax as a source. Rolling Eyes

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Brand X wrote:

The fact is a corpse could upstage Kerry

Cite your source, please, for this "fact". Cool

And when you realize you can't, then I think you should probably default on your timeshare in Bizzaro World. :wink:

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PDiddie wrote:

Brand X wrote:
The fact is a corpse could upstage Kerry

Cite your source, please, for this fact.

Dem electorate. :wink:

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