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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (12582)	2/4/2003 11:21:24 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (12582)	2/5/2003 3:59:29 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Poll finds Kerry, Lieberman are threats to Bush By RONALD BROWNSTEIN Los Angeles Times Feb. 4, 2003, 10:57PM WASHINGTON -- The share of Americans favoring President Bush's re-election in 2004 has fallen below 50 percent, while Sens. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and John Kerry of Massachusetts have emerged as the leaders for the Democratic nomination to oppose him, a new Los Angeles Times Poll has found. Just 45 percent of registered voters said they are now likely to support Bush for re-election, while 40 percent said they were inclined to back the Democratic nominee, the survey found. Fifteen percent said they don't now lean in either direction. As recently as last December, just more than half of adults in a Times poll said they would likely support Bush for re-election in a question that was phrased slightly differently. Though opinions are likely to change several times before voters go the polls in 2004, the new results suggest that the close partisan balance that defined U.S. politics before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is slowly reasserting itself. The fall in the percentage of voters committing to support Bush's re-election parallels a decline in his job approval rating since last fall and the return of sharp divisions along party lines about his performance and priorities. The Times Poll interviewed 1,197 registered voters nationwide from Jan. 30 through Feb. 2; it has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. In the fight for the Democratic nomination, the Times poll showed Lieberman and Kerry establishing a significant lead when 399 registered Democratic voters were asked their early preference. The sampling error for this group is plus or minus five percentage points. Lieberman led the field with 25 percent, followed by Kerry, with 20 percent. Former Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, who's exploring a possible candidacy, and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards tied for third, with 8 percent each. Sen. Bob Graham of Florida, who has said he is likely to enter the Democratic race, and Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri, who will formally announce his candidacy later this month, drew 6 percent each. Trailing the pack were activist Al Sharpton, with 2 percent, and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, with 1 percent. At this stage in the nomination process, support in national polls is largely a function of name identification and only one measure of a candidate's real strength. Also revealing are the contenders' level of support in the critical early states on the nomination calendar -- particularly Iowa and New Hampshire -- where they have already begun meeting voters. On Tuesday, the American Association of Health Plans, which is conducting a campaign to raise the visibility of health issues in Iowa and New Hampshire, released surveys measuring the views of Democratic voters in those states. Strikingly, Kerry led both polls. The surveys were conducted by veteran Republican pollster Whit Ayres. chron.com