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OT--If you're Kerry, this *can't* be good.
Poll: No boost for Kerry after convention
By Susan Page, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The Democratic National Convention boosted voters' perceptions of John Kerry's leadership on critical issues, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll finds. But it failed to give him the expected bump in the head-to-head race against President Bush. In the survey, taken Friday and Saturday, the Democratic ticket of Kerry and John Edwards trailed the Republican ticket of Bush and Dick Cheney 50% to 46% among likely voters, with independent candidate Ralph Nader at 2%. Before the convention, the two were essentially tied, with Kerry at 47%, Bush at 46%. The change in support was within the poll's margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points in the sample of 763 likely voters. But it was nonetheless a stunning result, the first time in the Gallup Poll since the 1972 Democratic convention that a candidate seemed to lose ground at his convention. -------------------------------------------------------- No wonder Kerry was running neck and neck with Bush for the past 3 months. Before the convention, nobody knew who he was. Now that they know, he's doomed. He was more attractive as an "anybody but Bush" candidate. |
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