Dean Soars To Top Of New Hampshire Poll, Support For Lieberman Drops To 4 Percent
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean pulled into the lead in the latest poll of New Hampshire voters, according to a new survey.
Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman fell from 11 percent support in June to 4 percent in July, according to poll results.
New Hampshire is the state holding the first presidential primary in 2004. The latest poll shows Dean taking a lead over rival John Kerry.
Dean, the former governor of Vermont, had 28 percent to 21 percent for Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts, according to the poll by the American Research Group of Manchester, N.H.
Dean's campaign started running television advertising in New Hampshire early this month. Kerry's campaign has not yet run television advertisements in the state, campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Dean and Kerry, both from New England, have been close all year in New Hampshire polls. Kerry had a slight lead in the July poll by American Research Group, of Manchester, N.H., and the two were close in another poll in late July.
Dick Gephardt, a congressman from Missouri, was the only other candidate in double digits, at 10 percent, in the New Hampshire poll.
Dean and Gephardt were essentially tied for the lead in an Iowa poll taken late last month in the state that holds caucuses a week before New Hampshire's primary.
Almost one-third in the New Hampshire poll of 600 likely primary voters remain undecided.
Sens. John Edwards, of North Carolina, and Bob Graham, of Florida, were at 2 percent. Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who has not announced whether he will be a candidate, was at 1 percent.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, of Ohio, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton had 0 percent.
The poll, taken Aug. 15-18, has an error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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