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Voter.com Battleground 2000 Daily Poll: Bush 46, Gore 37
November 06, 2000
By Catherine Ivey
Voter.com News
(Voter.com, Nov. 6) – Heading into the final 24 hours of his campaign, George W. Bush leads Al Gore by a nine-point margin for the second day, according to the Voter.com Battleground 2000 daily tracking poll. The nine-point edge, which Bush also held in the poll released Saturday, is the largest margin the Republican presidential nominee has held in the two months since the daily tracking poll began.
The poll of 1,000 likely voters was conducted by phone last Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and on Sunday night.
Although the poll’s results do not fully reflect voter response to last Thursday’s revelation that Bush was arrested for drunken driving in 1976, the near double-digit lead held by the Texas governor suggests the revelation will not effect voters’ decisions on Nov. 7.
The poll showed that, when asked to name their top choice among the leading four presidential candidates, 46 percent supported Bush, 37 percent favored Gore, 5 percent backed Ralph Nader and 1 percent supported Pat Buchanan. Eleven percent of voters polled said they still have not decided for whom they will vote.
Other findings in the poll released Monday:
The race for the control of Congress is in a dead heat: asked which party they would vote for in a U.S. Congressional election, 42 percent said they would choose a Republican candidate and 42 percent said they’d back a Democratic candidate.
Indicative of his overall slide in the polls, Gore’s once-solid lead among female voters has now been entirely eroded. Bush leads the vice president among female voters by 1 percent, 42 to 41. Until one week ago, Gore had always led among women voters -- by as much as 11 percent at one point.
Gore’s lead has not diminished among female minorities, however. When the poll first began on September 10, Gore led Bush by a 47-point margin in this demographic. In the poll released Monday, he leads by a 48-point margin, 66 to 18 percent.
Among males, Bush continues to hold a solid lead, 49 percent to Gore’s 34 percent.
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