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

To: DOUG H who wrote (222218)	1/25/2002 11:47:02 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Doug, I know what you mean. But.... A First: Republicans Outnumber Democrats "For the first time in the history of political polling, more voters identify themselves as Republicans than Democrats, according to the first bipartisan Battleground Poll of this election year," Cox News Service reported today. Forty percent of voters were Republicans and 35 percent Democrats, according to the poll by Republican Ed Goeas and Democrat Celinda Lake. "I see this not as a problem for the Democrats as much as an opportunity for the Republicans," Goeas said. He attributed the change to the soaring popularity of President Bush. "He is the first person we've seen come along since Ronald Reagan that the man is branding the Republican Party, as opposed to the Republican Party defining who the man is," Goeas said. Bush is "moving his party" toward the center from the conservative positions held by the GOP since the Reagan era, Lake said. She said that in the poll's measure of "voting behavior" - how people actually plan to vote - Democrats still lead, 46 percent to 43 percent. Nonetheless, the shift is historic. Until now, even when Republicans have crushed the likes of Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale and George McGovern, Democrats always led in party identification, Cox News said. The poll surveyed 1,000 registered likely voters nationwide Jan. 6-8. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee