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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (13752)	3/3/2000 10:03:00 AM
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Bradley is a panderer. Zogby heralds McCain's total collapse: Bush, Gore Seem Headed for Super Tuesday Knockouts Reuters Photo By Alan Elsner, Political Correspondent LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - George W. Bush (news - web sites) and Al Gore (news - web sites), their eyes on their parties' presidential nominations, campaigned hard as a Reuters/MSNBC multi-state poll on Friday found them both headed for crushing ``Super Tuesday' victories. The poll, conducted by John Zogby, suggested that the spirited battles for both the Republican and Democratic nominations may effectively end next Tuesday, setting the stage for a presidential election between Vice President Gore and Bush, the governor of Texas. Twelve states are holding Republican primaries or caucuses on March 7 with 588 delegates to the Republican National Convention at stake. A total of 1,034 will be needed to win that party's presidential nomination. After Bush won contests this week in Virginia, Washington and North Dakota, he took the lead in the delegate count by 161 to 103 for his main rival Arizona Sen. John McCain (news - web sites). More importantly, he grabbed the momentum in advance of next Tuesday. The poll found Bush leading McCain in seven of the eight states surveyed, including California, New York and Ohio, the three biggest prizes. It also found Bush had a chance of narrowly beating McCain in the open ballot in California as well as thrashing him among Republicans. Such a result could well force McCain out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.... The poll found McCain so far behind in five of the eight states there seemed virtually no hope of recovery. McCain led Bush in Massachusetts by 59-29 percent. That was his sole bright point. Bush led McCain in Georgia by 52-30 percent; in Ohio by 57-31 percent; in Missouri by 46-37 percent; in Maryland by 52-32 percent; in Connecticut by a narrow 45-42 percent and in New York by a slender 44-41 percent. Previous polls had shown McCain ahead in Connecticut and New York. Losses in those states would be a disaster for his campaign. Under a complicated system in California, all candidates -- Democratic as well as Republican -- will appear on a single ballot but only specially coded Republican ballots count toward delegates. That means that McCain could conceivably beat Bush in the popular vote but lose all 162 Republican delegates -- about 15 percent of total needed for the presidential nomination. That would be embarrassing for Bush but would not hold up his march toward the nomination. In fact, the poll showed Bush slightly ahead of McCain and virtually neck-and-neck with Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the popular vote. Bush was walloping McCain by 48-30 percent among Republicans. If Bush can edge Gore in the popular ballot, it would give Republicans great hope they could win the powerhouse state in the November election for the first time since 1988 when Bush's father was the victor. The results of the California popular vote were: Gore 26 percent, Bush 26 percent, McCain 24 percent with former Sen. Bill Bradley on 9 percent. dailynews.yahoo.com