Poll: Gore Narrows Bush Lead to 3 Points
CNSNews.com
Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2000
Republican Party presidential nominee George W. Bush's lead shrank to three percentage points over the weekend, according to the latest Reuters/Zogby poll, conducted Friday through Sunday. But another poll had good news for Bush.
In a Reuters/Zogby survey of 1,005 likely voters nationwide, Bush led Democrat candidate Al Gore 43 percent to 40 percent, with Green Party candidate Ralph Nader garnering 7 percent and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan netting 1.5 percent.
In the head-to-head race between Bush and Gore, Bush fared just a tad better, 46.1 percent to 42.7 percent. The poll had a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3.2 percent. Last week, after the Republican National Convention, Bush held more than a 17-point lead.
However, in a Los Angeles Times poll taken the same weekend, 49 percent of those surveyed said Gore deserved no credit for the economic good times.
It also said only 78 percent of Democrats backed Gore, while 95 percent of Republicans backed Bush. And Bush leads Gore by 16 percent among independents, the poll said. |
