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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (395180)	4/19/2003 9:18:08 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

""Would you vote for President Bush again", poughkeepsiejournal.com Saturday, April 19, 2003 Marist poll says voters like Bush's way with war The Associated Press ALBANY -- A new national poll released Friday said 70 percent of registered voters approve of how President Bush is doing in office -- a 14 percent increase from before the war in Iraq. The poll, conducted by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, also said 76 percent of registered voters approve of the president's handling of the war. Seventy-eight percent approve of the way he is dealing with terrorism. ''What we don't see in the numbers though is how this automatically converts to people planning to vote for him in 2004,'' pollster Lee Miringoff said. Forty percent of registered voters said they plan to vote for Bush, while 30 percent plan to vote against him. Thirty percent are not committed. Fifty percent of registered voters approve of Bush's handling of the economy, while 44 percent disapprove. Six percent are unsure. Miringoff said voters shouldn't be surprised to see the campaign focus on issues closer to home. ''The lion share of voter interest is centered on the economy,'' he said. ''There's a lot of partisan split in the Bush numbers. His role as commander in chief clearly doesn't close the sale.'' Of the Republicans surveyed, 97 percent approve of Bush's job performance while 47 percent of Democrats approve. A primary surprise The poll also queried voters on who they would support if the Democratic presidential primary was held now. Seventeen percent chose Sen. Joseph Lieberman, 13 percent liked U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt and 10 percent picked Sen. John Kerry. Thirty-nine percent said they were undecided. Other possible contenders received single digits. Domestic issues, like health care or education, are the issues 42 percent of Democrats polled said they want to hear about during the campaign, with 40 percent concerned about the economy. Those concerns outweighed issues like homeland security (7 percent), the situation in Iraq (4 percent) and the war against terrorism (4 percent). Marist's telephone poll of 963 adults was conducted Tuesday and Wednesday and has a sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.