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To: Rarebird who wrote (58823)	9/24/2000 10:56:57 PM
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hope you're not betting for Gore Bush Catches Gore in U.S. Presidential Race September 24, 2000 2:29 pm EST By Alan Elsner, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six weeks before the U.S. presidential election, polls Sunday showed Republican George W. Bush has erased Democrat Al Gore's lead and the race is tied once again. Three weekend polls by Gallup, Newsweek and Fox TV showed the Nov. 7 race a statistical dead heat. The vice president led by 3 percentage points in a Newsweek survey -- he had led by 14 points a week ago -- but Bush jumped into the lead by a single point in a Gallup daily tracking poll. In the Fox poll, the two candidates were tied. The surveys followed a good week for the Texas governor who enjoyed successful appearances on TV chat shows and managed to get his campaign back on message. Gore was dogged by allegations that he invented a story about his mother-in-law paying three times as much for a drug as his dog. Gore aides said the story was true but acknowledged that Gore got his figures from a congressional study rather than from actual family bills. The vice president, in a telephone conference call with reporters Sunday, said he put no faith in polls, whether favorable or unfavorable. "I don't believe in polls. I don't think they have much relevance to the race. People will vote on Nov. 7," he said. But Bush aides said there had been a sea change. "There's been a definite shift in the attitude among voters in the past week," said Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer in a conference call with reporters. "There is a growing sense of unease in the electorate with the vice president, his policies and his statements ... He keeps splitting hairs and cutting corners around the truth and he seems to keep doing it when then pressure's on," he said. CHANGE IN MOMENTUM Gore had moved into the lead following last month's Democratic convention and had slowly expanded his advantage. Last week, Gore had led the race in most polls by between 3 and 8 points so the past few days suggested a definite change in momentum in Bush's favor. With the first of three presidential debates now nine days away, both candidates will be seeking to go into that confrontation as the leader while including some intensive preparation time in their schedules. Bush was in Texas Sunday, preparing for another West Coast swing where he will attempt to dispute Gore's hold on the states of California, Oregon and Washington. Gore was also taking a rest before heading for Florida, a state Bush desperately needs to carry where the race is currently neck-and-neck. The latest polls did not reflect public reaction to the Clinton administration's decision last Friday to release a limited amount of oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help consumers pay for heating oil this winter. Bush fiercely attacked the decision, which Gore had pushed hard for, as politically motivated. His vice presidential running mate Dick Cheney kept up the assault in TV appearances on several Sunday news programs. "Bill Clinton and Al Gore, said just a few months ago that they thought it was a mistake to take oil out of the strategic reserve in order to manipulate prices," Cheney said on Fox News Sunday. "They thought that was bad policy ... Now, because it's six weeks before the election and they're worried about prices, all of a sudden Al Gore is for releasing oil out of the strategic reserve in order to manipulate prices. But it's hard not to view it in a political context," said the former defense secretary. Cheney also gave his assessment of the election. "The race now is virtually neck and neck from everything I can tell. I think it's going to go right down to the wire," he said.