Latest polling numbers from the CNN website today:
MOLINE, Iowa -- Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore and running mate Joe Lieberman were scheduled to continue their Midwest campaigning on Sunday, as a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll showed them quickly gaining on GOP nominee George W. Bush.
The survey, taken Friday and Saturday, showed Gore in a virtual dead heat with Bush and his running mate Dick Cheney, who were leading by 16 percentage points in the previous CNN poll taken August 11-12, just before this month's Democratic National Convention.
Interviews with 1,000 adult Americans, including 697 likely voters, showed Gore with 47 percent, Bush with 46 percent, Green Party candidate Ralph Nader with 3 percent and disputed Reform Party candidate Patrick Buchanan with 2 percent.
"I think what you have here on the part of the Republicans is a little bit of disappointment," said Democratic consultant Peter Fenn, appearing on "CNN Sunday Morning." Fenn said Republicans had expected Bush to be leading after the Democratic convention.
The CNN poll follows a Newsweek poll released Saturday that showed Gore leading Bush 48 percent to 42 percent in a four-candidate race. The poll of 806 voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points, was conducted both before and after Gore's convention nomination speech on Thursday. |
