Poll: Sharon maintains strong lead

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Poll: Sharon maintains strong lead
Yedioth Ahronoth
Attila Somfalvi
August 31, 2005

Yedioth Ahronoth released poll results showing current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon holding a 56-to-21 percent advantage over challenger Benjamin Netanyahu amongst all Israeli voters.

A strong majority of Likud members also said they preferred Sharon: 51 percent of Likud voters said they prefer Sharon, with just 26 percent saying they support Netanyahu.

Netanyahu, a former prime minister and finance minister who resigned from Sharon's government three weeks ago in protest of the Gaza disengagement plan, announced Tuesday he would seek the Likud Party leadership.

Netanyahu is set to launch his campaign Wednesday with a tour of Maaleh Adumim, the largest Jewish city in the West Bank, as well as the disputed E1 area, where construction plans have been put on hold as a result of disagreements with the United States, which opposes settlement expansion in the area.

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1. That's because Sharon has shown some real leadership.

Punishing jewish terrorists as well as palestinian ones, and more importantly, regarding Gaza, pulling out. Here's a thing he could teach Bush about, knowing when to pull out.

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2. Has Sharon had a catharsis? Or does he just look more apealing

than the opposition. (not rhetorical)

Would it be possible to imagine an opponent for * that would make him apealing? <shuddrrerrr> (rhetorical)