Reuters Poll: Bush Leads Kerry by 1 Point(Zogby)

[Champ]

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush leads Democratic rival John Kerry by 1 point with six days left in a tight race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.


Bush led Kerry 48-47 percent in the latest three-day national tracking poll, as the Massachusetts senator gained 2 points on Bush in a day. Bush led Kerry 49-46 percent on Tuesday.


Bush's lead was well within the poll's margin of error, leaving the White House rivals in a statistical dead heat heading into the stretch run.


"Today was a big day for Kerry," pollster John Zogby said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&ncid=696&e=1&u=/nm/20041027/pl_nm/campaign_poll_wednesday_dc

[Moderator]

1. Suggestion

Edit the title and include ( Zogby)
so our readers will know this is the Zogby poll.

Good news for us!

[Moderator]

2. Thanks

and a little kick too!!

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Zogby's almost got it!

[gavodotcom]

4. The RNC check must have cleared, Zogby's a good guy now. ;) n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Actually, before Zogby's recent polls, many DU threads...

asking which pollster was most trusted, resulted in posters answering Zogby in overwhelming numbers. I think he's been considered relatively independent, working indepently, or for Reuters, and not with a TV network.

[robbedvoter]

7. Only DU-ers who supported dean - because Zogby FAVORED him

in primaries. Not a pollster's job. he shilled for W in 2000, and does it now. Dead heat my foot!

[DeepModem Mom]

9. I thought he was the only pollster to call it for Gore, at the wire...

in 2000, but could be mistaken.

[mzmolly]

16. Zogby showed Dean ahead when he was ahead and showed *Kerry

to be the winner of Iowa for gosh sakes. :eyes:

All the polls had Dean in front when he was the front runner, Zogby showed Kerry trending up/Dean trending down just like other polls.

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. I think they also mentioned Harris?

[fryguy]

5. good news!

the sun shines a little brighter this morning....

[HereSince1628]

14. Umm, actually it's overcast here...

and dark. Fall is upon us, but SPRING is in our hearts.

May Kerry, Edwards, and daffodils await us in the new year.

[PA Democrat]

8. This is good news because it shows a continued trend of voters

abandoning * and moving toward Kerry. I think many more voters will move toward Kerry as they catch up with all the latest news: the missing explosives, the massacre of newly-trained Iraqi troops and Allawi's blaming the coalition for their murders.

I think there is generally a few days lag between the time a story breaks, when people generally become aware of the story and when people form their opinions about the story.

[Claire Beth]

10. yes, good news for us!

[dweller]

11. hmmm

my email has a new Zogby poll awaiting this morning.
Guess i'll have to go and tweak it a bit.

dp

[Was_Immer]

12. At this stage of the 2000 election....

At this stage of the 2000 election, Bush led Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites) by 5 points in the daily tracking poll.

[deadparrot]

13. Now I think it's official:

Every national poll (at least that I know of) has picked up a Kerry trend.

Hopefully it stays that way.

[JuniorPlankton]

15. We are on the right track!

:kick:

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. Aren't these national polls totally irrelevant without qualifying

which states they're polling?