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

To: greenspirit who wrote (37617)	9/17/2000 3:50:05 PM
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Article...Polls indicate a tight race for Bush, Gore in NW Friday, September 15, 2000 By JOEL CONNELLY SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT seattlep-i.nwsource.com A trio of new Washington and Oregon polls show a tight presidential contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush, with a possibility that the Green Party's Ralph Nader could sway enough liberal voters to tip the balance to Bush. Two of the polls in Washington also indicate that former Rep. Maria Cantwell will easily defeat Deborah Senn in Tuesday's Democratic Senate primary, and is headed for a tight showdown with Republican Sen. Slade Gorton. Visit our links page for more info on the 2000 elections. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A poll of 500 Washington voters by Evans/McDonough, taken for KING-TV, found Gore with 45 percent, Bush at 41 percent, Nader at 5 percent and Patrick Buchanan with 1 percent of the vote. The survey, taken early this week, had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, meaning the Gore-Bush contest is a statistical dead heat. In the Senate race, Gorton was the choice of 45 percent of the voters surveyed, followed by Cantwell at 33 percent and Senn at 9 percent. Evans/McDonough often polls for Democrats and labor unions. But its findings track with a poll taken for Gorton last week by Moore Information of Portland, the Republicans' premier pollster in the region. The Moore poll found Gore with a razor-thin 44-43 lead over Bush, with Nader at 4 percent. It, too, was a survey of 500 voters with a margin of sampling error of 4 percentage points. The Moore poll has the race much closer than a nightly tracking survey of 200 voters being done for Cantwell's campaign by top Democratic pollster Mark Mellman. Mellman has found that Gore's lead is in the range of 9 to 11 points. Republicans are "very happy" with Moore's finding, said Tony Williams, Gorton's chief of staff. The Moore poll showed Gorton at 45 percent, Cantwell with 28 percent and Senn trailing at 8 percent. Another 17 percent remained undecided. In Oregon, a poll taken for KATU-TV and the Oregonian found Gore and Bush virtually tied, with Nader running strongly in a state where he drew 10,000 people to a recent Portland rally. Taken by the independent firm of Davis/Hibbitts, the Oregon survey had Gore as choice of 42 percent of those polled, Bush with 41 percent, Nader at 8 percent and Buchanan's support negligible. About 8 percent remained undecided. Washington is due to see a cast of both candidates and supporting players during the coming week. GOP vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney will campaign in the state on Monday. Tipper Gore will stump the state for her husband on Thursday. And Nader's campaign will try to fill KeyArena for a rally two days later.