*OT* What Poll are you talking about? Here is the latest one released by Newsweek and Gore has opened up a 10 point lead!
Poll: Gore has 10 point lead over Bush
Friday, September 01, 2000 01:03 PM EDT
NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (UPI) - Vice President Al Gore has built up a 10 point lead over Republican opponent George W. Bush in the presidential race, a poll released Friday by Newsweek shows.
The poll gives Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan just 1 percent and Green Party candidate Ralph Nader 3 percent of the vote.
The poll of 755 registered voters Aug. 30-31 has an error rate of 4 percent.
The poll showed Democrat Gore leading the Texas governor 49 percent to 39 percent in a four-way race. Gore's lead grows to 51 percent to 41 percent in a two-way race with Bush.
Sixty-one percent of those polled said it is appropriate for a candidate to discuss his religion and beliefs and 40 percent said the amount of time Democratic vice presidential contender Joe Lieberman has spent discussing his own beliefs is "about right," with only 28 percent saying they think he talks about them too much.
More than half of those polled (51 percent) said they agreed with Lieberman that religion should play a bigger role in public life vs. 12 percent who said it
should plan a smaller role.
Sixty-six percent said Gore's choice of Lieberman as a running mate would make no difference in how they vote and 20 percent said they would vote for the Democratic ticket because Lieberman is on it. Seventy-two percent said they did not think Lieberman's religion would make a difference in how their friends, neighbors and others they know will vote.
Voters were nearly evenly split between Gore's and Bush's positions on prayer in school, the role of religion in politics and abortion.
Voters favored Gore's positions on the economy and jobs, Social Security, education and vouchers, upholding moral values, health care, helping seniors pay for prescription drugs and taxes.
Voters favored Bush on leadership qualities and but said Gore is more honest and ethical, more caring and more likeable.
The poll was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates. |
