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

To: Neocon who wrote (38109)	9/19/2000 4:27:06 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Tracking poll: Gore continues to hold narrow lead For first time, more think Gore will win By CNN Polling Director Keating Holland WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Al Gore continues to hold a narrow lead over presidential rival Texas Gov. George W. Bush in today's CNN/USA Today/Gallup tracking poll. The numbers reveal a presidential race essentially unchanged, with the Democrat Gore's support remaining in the high 40s while Republican Bush's numbers are in the low- to mid-40s. Interviews with 741 likely voters, conducted September 15-17, show Gore drawing 48 percent of the survey's voters, while Bush pulls the support of 43 percent, a lead of five points. Since the poll has a sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points, Gore's lead does fall within the statistical margin of error. For the first time in this campaign, more voters believe that Al Gore will win the election: 54 percent now think Gore will win in November, up from 34 percent in late August. And Gore's favorable rating, which rose to a new high of 61 percent after the Democratic convention, has maintained at that level since then. Bush's favorable rating, however, has dropped from a personal best of 67 percent after the GOP convention to 61 percent after the Democratic conclave, to just 52 percent today. Joe Lieberman's favorable rating is at 58 percent, a drop from his 65 percent figure after the Democratic convention but still higher than Dick Cheney's 52 percent favorable rating. The two presidential candidate's approval ratings show the same pattern, with the number of voters who approve of how Gore has handled his job as vice president holding steady in the post-convention season while the number who approve of Bush's record as Texas Governor has dropped. The Summer Olympic Games, however, may put the election in a holding pattern for a few weeks. Most voters say that if they could only watch one thing on television in the next few weeks, they would choose the Olympics. Only 39 percent would pick coverage of the presidential election over the Olympics. CNN will be releasing the results on its tracking polls every day until the November 7 elections. The polls monitor public opinion of the presidential race over intervals of two to three days.