With the entrance of Clark, who I still think is a stalking horse for Hillary, I would expect to see some erosion in Kerry's numbers. AS is going to be a very unhappy man. Dean is still up by 10 points in NH.
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N.H. Poll: Dean Has 10-Point Lead on Kerry
Thu Sep 18, 8:24 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Howard Dean (news - web sites) holds a 10-point lead over John Kerry (news - web sites) among likely voters in the New Hampshire primary, according to a poll that suggests the race is tightening between the two New Englanders.
Dean, the former Vermont governor, had 31 percent in the poll by the American Research Group of Manchester, N.H., while Kerry, the Massachusetts senator, had 21 percent. The remaining candidates were in single digits; 27 percent were undecided.
Dean's lead over Kerry is about half what it was in a different New Hampshire poll late last month but close to the 12-point difference in another poll a week and a half ago.
In the last ARG poll, in mid-August, Dean was 7 points ahead of Kerry, 28 percent to 21 percent.
Rep. Dick Gephardt (news - web sites) of Missouri was at 8 percent, and Sen. Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) of Connecticut had 5 percent. Florida Sen. Bob Graham (news, bio, voting record), North Carolina Sen. John Edwards (news, bio, voting record) and retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who entered the race Wednesday, had 2 percent, while Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich (news, bio, voting record) and Carol Moseley Braun had 1 percent. Al Sharpton had 0 percent.
While two-thirds of those surveyed had a positive view of Dean and Kerry, only a third of the primary voters had a similar opinion of Lieberman.
Seven in 10 voters are familiar with Clark, but only 22 percent had a favorable view of him, while 5 percent were unfavorable. Forty-three percent said they don't know enough about the retired general yet to form an opinion.
The poll of 600 likely primary voters was taken Sept. 14-17 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. |
