Here's the bad news re Oregon: October 1, 2004
Oregon poll shows Bush, Kerry run neck and neck
The Associated Press
PORTLAND - Oregon remains a battleground state.
With the election a little more than a month away, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are in virtual tie in the state, according to a survey conducted for The Oregonian and KATU-TV.
The statewide poll of 624 voters found 47 percent favor Kerry and 45 percent support Bush, with 7 percent undecided and 1 percent opting for another candidate. The survey was conducted Friday through Monday by Davis, Hibbitts & Midghall of Portland and has a margin of error of 4 percentage points, plus or minus.
The poll, published Thursday in a Portland newspaper, also found that a measure that would ban same-sex marriage might be getting closer.
The other five statewide initiatives show relatively large percentages of undecided voters, and pollster Tim Hibbitts said only one of them, a measure easing restrictions on medical marijuana, seems clearly headed for defeat.
Hibbitts said Oregon represents a fairly strong challenge for Bush because the survey found that 54 percent thought the country was on the wrong track and 36 percent thought things were going in the right direction.
``It's pretty impressive to me that with those right track and wrong track numbers that Kerry does not have the state nailed down,'' Hibbitts said.
Oregon has voted Democrat in the past four presidential elections, but the state's Bush/Gore race was decided by 6,765 votes in 2000.
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