AZ Daily Sun: Poll: Kerry cuts into Bush lead

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Poll: Kerry cuts into Bush lead
By HOWARD FISCHER
Capitol Media Services
10/13/2004

PHOENIX -- Aided by the debates, Democrat John Kerry has pulled within striking distance of George Bush in Arizona, according to a new statewide poll.

The survey, coming on the eve of the final debate tonight, gives the president the backing of 49 percent of the 401 likely voters questioned against 44 percent for Kerry. Libertarian Michael Badnarik logs just 1 percent in the poll, which has a margin of error of 5 percent. Pollster Fred Solop at the Social Research Laboratory at Northern Arizona University said Bush had opened a double-digit lead over Kerry before the debates.

In fact, in a smaller survey done by Solop before and during that second town hall style debate last Thursday, the 169 likely Arizona voters questioned at that time tilted 55-40 for Bush. That tracks with a Survey USA poll also done last week, before the second debate, which showed Bush leading 55-41.

Solop said the new numbers, from a survey conducted Friday through Monday, show Kerry apparently performed well enough to once again make Arizona a "battleground state'' in the presidential election.

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[w4rma]

1. And yet Repugs and big media try to convince us that the debate was a tie

or that bush won it.

[Zomby Woof]

2. Up here in northern AZ

If we could carry the state, we would go Kerry and make AZ blue. It all comes down to the 'state of Maricopa'.

[Az_lefty]

3. Yep, it's all about winning Maricopa county.

the rest of the state is blue.

Oh shit....I just fell into the 700 club.

[Roy]

5. Maricopa

Isn't that the county where Fox and the other Cable News channels fawns over the Sherriff who locks up and humiliate anyone that looks dem.

[progressiveBadger]

7. We're doing our best at ASU!

CNN is right behind my buidling, and whenever I take a smoke break, I go out there and join the droves of Kerry supporters. I was in Madison, WI a week ago, and it's a little more obvious there, but colleges love Kerry!!!

[LiberalEsto]

4. Holy smokes, I knew Fred Solop at Rutgers

And this poll news is wonderful.
AZ has long been a corrupt rightwing state so this is refreshing and welcome news.

[dogpatch]

6. hot damn!

I'm coming to AZ next week from CA as a traveler for Kerry, going to canvass in Spanish-speaking areas, but I think I'm going more around Pima County. I wasn't sure if I should go there or switch to a closer state but this is great news.

[faithnotgreed]

8. thanks dogpatch & everyone working to kerry arizona