Canadians prefer Kerry to Bush: Poll

[struggle4progress]

Jul. 27, 2004. 06:50 PM

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The poll, conducted by Ipsos-Reid for CTV and the Globe and Mail, suggests 60 per cent of Canadians would vote for Democrat John Kerry as the next president of the United States, while only 22 per cent would vote for Republican incumbent George W. Bush.
Bush performed dismally in all areas of the poll.

Less than one-third of those surveyed (29 per cent) said they like and respect the Bush administration, and 72 per cent disagreed that he should be re-elected for another four-year term.

Slightly more than half of the respondents (54 per cent) said they believed Kerry would do better than Bush in dealing with Prime Minister Paul Martin.
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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1090966232568&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467
>>>>> We gotta get more Canadians registered to vote!


Poll: Confidence challenges Democrats
July 27, 2004: 6:30 PM EDT
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Economic perceptions play a critical role in election politics. The ABC/Post poll says Bush garnered support from 75 percent of registered voters who say the economy is in good shape while Kerry captured 71 percent of the vote from those who rate the economy negatively.
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http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/27/news/economy/abc_money/


Americans divided on Iraq
From correspondents in Washington
28jul04

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AMERICANS were divided on the decision to wage war in Iraq, a poll showed today, as the US presidential race heated up with the Democrats holding their national convention to formally name Senator John Kerry as their candidate.

Half of those surveyed believe the decision to send troops was a mistake, against 47 per cent who said it was not, according to the CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll.
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Forty-five per cent said Mr Bush has a clear plan for Iraq, but 54 per cent said he does not. One third said Mr Kerry has a clear plan, while 56 per cent said he does not. Eleven per cent had no opinion on whether Kerry has a plan, the poll found.

But 45 per cent also said that Mr Bush deliberately misled the US about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction - the worst findings for the president since pollsters first asked the question in May last year, the findings showed. A slight majority, 52 per cent, said Mr Bush did not mislead the nation, the poll said.
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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10269551%5E1702,00.html


Voters want more specifics from Kerry
Poll shows Democratic candidate losing ground to Bush
By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane
Updated: 7:59 a.m. ET July 27, 2004

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The survey found that Kerry and Bush remain virtually deadlocked, with 48 percent of registered voters supporting Bush and 46 percent Kerry. Independent candidate Ralph Nader claims 3 percent of the hypothetical vote. Kerry held a four-point lead over Bush in mid-June and was tied with Bush in a Post survey two weeks ago.

Kerry has slipped even though Bush remains unpopular with many Americans. Currently half of Americans approve of the job he is doing as president and 47 percent disapprove. Fewer than half endorse the way he is managing the economy, the situation in Iraq and health care. More broadly, a majority of Americans -- 53 percent -- say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country, a 21-point increase since Saddam Hussein's government fell to U.S. forces 15 months ago.

Although the electorate remains deeply divided, the survey found one area of broad agreement: Two in three voters say this election is one of the most important of their lives.
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5524805/



Bush Anti-Gay Stand Not Resonating With Voters
07.26.04
By Fidel Ortega
(Miami, Florida) A new survey of voters in Florida, the nation's largest swing state, and one of the most important battlegrounds for control of the White House, shows that voters are not rallying to the President's anti-gay campaign.

Only 2 percent of likely Florida voters named same-sex marriage as an important issue in the election, according to a poll for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Florida Times-Union that was released on Sunday.
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When asked to name the most important issue determining their vote for president, the largest number, 26 percent, named jobs and the economy. The second most important issue was Iraq, named by 16 percent of eligible voters.
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http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=9&id=3653


Kerry Leads Ohio, Bush Winning in Florida, Poll Says (Update1)
July 26

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Kerry, a Democrat, has a 5 percentage point lead over Bush in Ohio, while Bush, a Republican, leads by 4 points in Florida, a Gallup poll conducted for USA Today and Cable News Network found. The candidates are tied in Missouri.
The candidates are focusing their advertising and visits on so-called battleground states decided by 7 percentage points or less in 2000. Kerry leads 48 percent to 43 percent in Ohio, a state Bush won by 4 points in 2000, according to Gallup. Bush leads 50 percent to 46 percent in Florida, which he won by 537 votes in 2000. They each have 47 percent support in Missouri, which has voted for the winner of every election since 1956.
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A review of state-by-state polls and historical voting data by Bloomberg News shows Bush ahead in 18 states, including Texas and Wyoming, with 144 electoral votes. Kerry leads in 12 states, including New York and Illinois, with 189 electoral votes. In 20 states that have 205 electoral votes, including Ohio and Nevada, results of the most recent polls are within the margin of error.
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http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a9Ib.LBT2ero&refer=top_world_news


USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll: Battleground states
.. poll results .. based on telephone interviews with voters in Florida, Missouri and Ohio conducted July 19-22, 2004.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2004-07-25-battleground-poll.htm

Polls: Kerry Leads Bush in Pa. and Ore.
WILL LESTER
Associated Press
Posted on Sun, Jul. 25, 2004

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In Pennsylvania, a key swing state won by Democrat Al Gore in 2000, Kerry was up over Bush by 48 percent to 38 percent, while Nader was at 5 percent, in a state poll conducted by the Los Angeles Times.

In Oregon, Kerry led Bush 50 percent to 42 percent, while Nader had 4 percent, according to a poll by the American Research Group. Gore narrowly won Oregon in 2000.

In Florida, a Mason-Dixon poll found Bush at 48 percent, Kerry at 46 percent and Nader at 2 percent. The race was equally close in a Los Angeles Times poll, with Bush at 45 percent, Kerry at 44 percent and 2 percent for Nader.
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In New Hampshire, Kerry had 47 percent, Bush 45 percent and Nader 3 percent. In Ohio, Kerry and Bush also were deadlocked in a three-way race.
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http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/9240229.htm



Kerry's Speech Will Be Watched by 6 of 10 Americans, Poll Finds

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In the July 18-22 Quinnipiac poll, 61 percent of the 1,551 registered voters surveyed said they plan to watch Kerry's speech and 54 percent said they will watch the previous night's speech by vice presidential candidate John Edwards. Only 22 percent said they will watch ``a great deal'' of the convention, the poll found. Its margin of error was 2.5 percentage points.

Kerry and Bush, 58, are in a statistical tie in national polls including surveys released last week by Time Magazine and USA Today, Cable News Network and Gallup. A July 5-22 Newsweek poll found Kerry leading Bush 48 percent to 41 percent among voters under 30, a four-point gain since May.

Twenty-four percent of the young voters polled said they plan to watch most or all of the Democratic convention, which starts tomorrow and runs through Thursday. Ipsos-Public Affairs interviewed 350 voters between the ages of 18 and 29 for the Newsweek poll. The error margin was 5.1 percentage points.

A separate June 16-July 17 CBS/New York Times poll found that the racial makeup of delegates to this year's Democratic convention is similar to four years ago. Fourteen percent are millionaires and 25 percent are union members, the lowest labor representation since 1988, according to the poll of 1,085 delegates. The margin of error was 2 percentage points.
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http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aRuWFu7EwFfU&refer=top_world_news


Kerry's lead widens with Hispanic voters
Poll finds 60% support the Democrat, compared with 32% backing Bush

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Results of The Miami Herald/Zogby International Hispanic Poll come as both campaigns wage aggressive outreach efforts to woo the fast-growing voting bloc, which has the potential to swing key battleground states like Florida, New Mexico and Arizona -- and help determine the next majority party.

Kerry, who officially becomes the Democratic nominee at the party's convention in Boston this week, holds a 60 percent to 32 percent lead over President Bush among voters who identify themselves as Hispanic. Kerry gained two points since a similar poll in April -- within the poll's margin of error but still a potential trouble spot for Bush, said pollster John Zogby, who conducted the survey of 1,003 likely voters.
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http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/165169-8932-010.html

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. 22% would support him! Ha!!! Steve Harper got more votes than...

that!!! It shows how bad and extreme Bush really is!

[MrPrax]

2. Shows how bad the US is...

if you dumb down Kerry in an actual Canuck election, he wouldn't even show up on the radar...or win an NDP convention

His positions: Like more war, missile defense, war on terrah, hate on drugs, give me lots of money coz I have to buy ads, private medicare, etc etc...the divide is a lot more than say, PROGRESSIVES finding vindication for their shabby horse races...

[struggle4progress]

3. What ARE you trying to say? eom

[PartyPooper]

4. I only wished that more Americans had a brain like the rest of the world.

Otherwise, we're all doomed!

:dunce:

[Hobarticus]

5. Already told friends in Winnipeg I'm moving in if Bush wins...

And they say that they can't blame me!

[daleo]

6. Canadians always prefer Democrats over Republicans by a wide margin

I can't ever remember a time when this result hasn't been true. If the U.S. and Canada ever decided to merge (in whatever way), the Democrats would pick up the vast majority of the new voters. It is a consolation to most Canadians that this is the case, as it holds Republicans back from grandiose notions of Manifest Destiny.