Kerry Holds Slim Lead Over Bush (Canadian Poll)

[joefree1]

*Didn't they get the memo?!!

Kerry Holds Slim National Lead Over Bush

(CPOD) Sept. 4, 2004 – The Democratic ticket is leading the United States presidential race, according to a poll by Léger Marketing published in Le Devoir. 51 per cent of respondents would vote for John Kerry and John Edwards, while 47 per cent would support Republican incumbents George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

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Polling Data

If the 2004 presidential election were held today, would you vote for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the Republicans, John Kerry and John Edwards, the Democrats, or Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo, the independents?

Kerry / Edwards (D)

51%

Bush / Cheney (R)

47%

Nader / Camejo (I)

1%

Source: Léger Marketing / Le Devoir
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 796 likely American voters, conducted on Aug. 30 and Aug. 31, 2004. Margin of error is 3.5 per cent.

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http://www.cpod.ubc.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=4028

Someone get some "Kool-aid" up to these guys pronto!

[lebkuchen]

1. This is much more plausible than Time's poll

and not because I favor Bush.

No one can tell me that after four days of that RNC hate fest, that Bush's ratings rose to double digits over Kerry post Miller speech.

[Zynx]

2. If any moderates liked Miller's speech, I would be shocked.

[Fionn]

10. Yes but

It was taken before the Hatefest began. Wasn't it?

[ck4829]

3. You can tell United States Democracy is in danger when...

Media sources outside the US are more reliable and honest than the ones inside.

[Zynx]

5. We have been corrupted by right-wing and corporate media.

They intentionally try to influence elections with slanted reporting and selective use of data and polling.

[WiseMen]

4. How much of a difference can a few days make? New polls will tell.

[StlMo]

6. This poll is much more believable.

There is almost no chance that the Time poll is accurate.

[JI7]

7. i think Bush is some points ahead

i do think he got a convention bounce. not from any specific speech or anything but because of the overall atmosphere of the news coverage which was just focused on the republican convention. i don't think many undecided swing voters watched the conventions closely but they are influenced by soundbytes and newspaper and magazine covers.

[joefree1]

8. Yeah, not like corporate media would whore themselves ...

...or would they?

At one point, the Times actually quotes Bush strategist Matthew Dowd saying it was "a distinct possibility" the president would emerge from Labor Day with a lead in the polls. This is news? This is front-page news? Given the obvious fact that the race remains so close and Republicans held their convention second, which meant they'd likely enjoy a bump in the polls on the eve of Labor Day, any serious election analyst had to assume Bush might enjoy a lead come Labor Day.

So the question remains, why did the Times run a Page One story speculating about the effects of the Republican Convention, while quoting optimistic Republican strategists, if that same story wasn't worth covering coming out of Boston?
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http://salon.com/politics/war_room//index.html

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[a new day]

9. A moment in a different time

The Canadian poll was done 8/30 - 8/31.

Time was thru 9/2, I believe.

[DieboldMustDie]

11. That would be a pretty big swing in just 2 days.

:shrug:

[joefree1]

12. Arnie pulled it out for the Rethuglicans

What a guy. :crazy:

[regnaD kciN]

13. Invalid...

Taken before the RNC.

Sorry...

[seabeyond]

14. sheeet.............maybe that is what dems need, other countries

to step in and take the place of our media and our polling, and our watching our voting precincts and .........